KALEDIN Sergey

Born August 28, 1949, Mr.. in Moscow, the son of an engineer. Education plays a mother, a translator-Turkologist subsequently a member of the joint venture, which had a great influence on the future of the writer. After school he entered the Institute of Communications, from which he left after the first course, realizing that it was not his vocation. Went into the army on their own choosing construction battalion, which was less ideological education. Served in Angarsk.

After the army he worked, had many jobs: he was a carpenter, a mechanic, a gravedigger at the cemetery. In 1972 entered the Literary Institute. Gorky to separate criticism. After studying for several years, moving from full-time studies at distance. In 1978, when it's time to protect the diploma, Kaledin was in Sakhalin, "in shabashke" so instructed his wife to make a critical article for the protection of the diploma. Returning, I found out that the article is not accepted, and then quickly wrote a novel "Humble cemetery, which was the thesis, successfully protected. In 1979 graduated.

"Humble Cemetery" by offering to publish different publishers for several years, but in 1987 the magazine "New World" decided to publish. The story was a resounding success. Famously, the author in the same year published a novel, a chronicle of "Corridor", which included the "Cuckoo", "Gleb Shabashka Bogdysheva" and other stories.

In 1988 published a story "construction battalion", also attracted the attention of readers. In 1990 the director of the Leningrad Maly Drama Theater of Leningrad Dodin put on the performance of this novel, which had great success during touring theater in Russia and other countries. In 1991 the writer published a new novel - "Pop and the employee". Last story Kaledin - Taha Merkaz "(which means in Hebrew -" The main bus station ") - appeared in the" Continent "in 1996. Kaledin lives and works in Moscow.