Day of the Oprichnik

A Note About the Author

Vladimir Sorokin was born in 1955. He is the author of many novels, plays, short stories, screenplays, and a libretto. He has won the Andrei Bely Prize and the Maxim Gorky Prize, and was a finalist for the Russian Booker Prize. His work has been translated into many languages. He lives in Moscow.

A Note About the Translator

Jamey Gambrell is a writer on Russian art and culture. Her translations include works by Joseph Brodsky, Alexander Rodchenko, Tatyana Tolstaya, and Marina Tsvetaeva. She has also translated Vladimir Sorokin’s The Ice Trilogy, his novella A Month in Dachau, and a number of his stories. She lives in New York City.