SOTNIKOV Vladimir

Sotnikov, Vladimir Mikhailovich (p. 1960), Russian writer. Born April 24, 1960 in d.Holoche (Belarus) in a family of teachers. After school (1977) studied the physico-mathematical department of the Mogilev Pedagogical Institute and then at the Faculty of Journalism of the Belarusian State University. In 1983 joined the Literary Institute. Gorky (Moscow). He studied at the seminar prose (Head VS Makanin). The first publication - the magazine 'Youth' in 1986.

In 1989, presented as a thesis novel, "Cover" (all publ. in 1997 in the journal 'Clear Fields'), caused a sympathetic assessment of prose Makanina and A. Bitova criticism Vinogradova. Upon graduation he worked at the Writers' Union and the Ministry of Culture. Since 1994, deals only with literary work. His stories were published in the journals 'Banner', 'Rural Youth', 'October', in the anthology 'Teply Stan'. Author of books on ASGriboedov, DI Fonvizin, NG Chernyshevski, published in the series' School Library 'publisher' Olympus', the author of a monographic section of LN Tolstoy in 'more training handbook' publisher ' Bustard '.

In 1999-2001, has written nine children's adventure stories (four co-authored with T. Sotnikova), published by 'EKSMO'. In 2000 the newspaper 'Book Review' published an excerpt from his new novel "The spilled water.