Oleg Postnov

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Oleg Postnov
File:Oleg Postnov, portrait.jpg
Occupation Author
Language Russian, German, Hungarian
Nationality Russian
Education PhD
Alma mater Novosibirsk University
Period 1990-present
Notable awards Veteran of Russian Academy of Science (Siberian Branch)
Silver Sigma
Children Nikita Postnov

Oleg Postnov (Russian: Олег Постнов; born 1962) is a Russian author, university professor, philologist and a literary critic.

Postnov is an internationally acclaimed novelist most recognized for his philosophical fiction about love. The critics have described Postnov's work as an amalgamation of the Russian's classics: "as if Vladimir Nabokov took on a rewrite of Gogol's Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka"[1]—with the added "macabre of Edgar Allan Poe."[2] In the 1990s, Postnov briefly lived in the United States. He described the experience in several essays, including "USA: the Art of Shopping"[3] and "USA: the State of Snow."[4] Postnov's novel Angst has been translated into German.

Early years and education

Postnov was born in Russian Akademgorodok to G.S. Postnov, a philology professor. He graduated from the Novosibirsk University, the Humanities Division. In 1990, Oleg Postnov received his PhD. Postnov's doctoral thesis "Goncharov's Esthetics" was published several years after his graduation as an in depth study with the target audience of the researches specializing in literature studies and the history of aesthetics."[5]

Family

Postnov lives in Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, Russia with his son Nikita.

Writing career

The Sand Timer (Russian: Песочное время) (Novosibirsk, 1997) Postnov published his first work of fiction—a short story "The Sand Timer"—in 1997.[6] The Sand Timer received the distinction of Matador Magazine's prestigious "top ten books 1998."

Angst (Russian: Страх) (Amfora 2001) is an "erotic mysticism novel with a detective plot".[7] In Russia, Postnov's Angst took the first prize in the "Catch of 1999"[8] the Russian nationwide competition and was nominated for the Russian Booker Prize of 2002;[9] for the National Bestseller Prize,[10] shortlisted for the Apollon Grigoriev Prize[11] In Germany, where the critics took Angst to be Postnov's literary debut, Die Berliner Literaturktitik compared the book to Nabokov's Lolita and called Postnov a "magician."[12] A story of love of a Russian youth and a Ukrainian beauty is set in the deep Ukrainian country in 1991.

The Antiquary (Russian: Антиквар) (Lenizdat 2013)

  • To Kiss the Harlequin (Russian: Поцелуй арлекина)(EKSMO2006). Chapters of Harlequin appeared in 2001 in Dmitry Kuzmin's "New Literary Card of Russia" (Russian: Новая литературная карта России).
  • Mirgorod (Russian: МИРГОРОД) (Azbuka, 2013)
  • The Girl That Ran on Ice (Russian: ДЕВОЧКА НА КОНЬКАХ) (Azbuka, 2014)

Academic career and awards

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Silver Sigma

Postnov's doctorate explores classic Russian literature of the first third of the 19th century.

Between 1986 and 2007, Postnov worked as senior scientist for the Institute of Philology Academy of Sciences (Siberian Branch). He is a recipient of the medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Siberian Branch) and a Silver Sigma.

Postnov has published a number of scholarly books and articles.

Scholarly books

  • Esthetics of Goncharov[13]
  • Pushkin and Death[14]
  • Death in Russia X-XX century[15]

Scholarly articles

  • Pushkin and Grin (the crossroads of one anthroponym) (Moscow 2003)[16]
  • Bryus and the Russian Literary Tradition of the XX Century (Петербург 2004)[17]
  • Russian Military Epitaph XVIII-early XIX (Петербург 2006)[18]
  • Truth in Literary Text (Novosibirsk 2006)[19]
  • The Individual and the Tradition in the Modern World (Novosibirsk 2007)[20]
  • Sysoev's Paradox (Moscow, 2009)[21]

Television and theater

In 2011, The Moscow Theater of Nations opened its production of Albert Camus's Caligula[22] in translation of Oleg Postnov and E.A. Gorny. The same year, the production toured nationally, including the Villa Adriana International Festival in Tivoli, Italy.[23] In 2012, the production received the most prestigious award in the Russian Federation theater—the Golden Mask. In 2014, the production is still as popular as the day it was opened. TV channel Moskva 24 reported that "The ever-busy Muscovites not only find the time to watch this four-hour-long play," but even form long lines to buy the expensive tickets.[24]

The Theater of Nations plans to televise Caligula in the spring of 2014.

Postnov’s contribution to the theater, —in addition to his translation of Camu’s Caligula, include an original play called Ernst, Theodor, Amadeus. Postnov’s fairy-tale-like play explores the last year and death of the German Romantic and storyteller best known as E.T.A. Hoffmann (the author of The Nutcracker). It is also a story of two childhood friends and rivals, who grew up to be the prototypical poet and the prototypical tyrant.

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