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Dmitry Bykov (Russian: Дмитрий Быков) is a Russian writer, poet, literary critic and journalist.
Dmitry Bykov is the author of five novels and a biography of Pasternak, and a winner of the Big Book Prize and the National Bestseller Prize....
Russia: The Citizen Poet
Over the past few years, Dmitry Bykov’s creative flow has been noisily saturating his Russian audience with literary allusions, giving new life to old books.
Now in his mid-forties, Bykov has published five novels and three lengthy biographies,1 as well as numerous collections of short stories, essays, and verse. A graduate of Moscow University’s Journalism Faculty, he regards journalism as more important than writing books.2 Hardly a day passes without at least one article, broadcast, or blog in which Bykov finds some ingenious connection between a political event and a line of poetry or a character from a novel; he comments on everything from the St.
Petersburg Economic Forum to the punk protest group Pussy Riot.3
Bykov’s latest talk show, News in the Classics, airs live three times a week on the radio station Kommersant FM. Everything that happens has a parallel in literature, Bykov maintains.
The aim of the show is “to h
