German Sadulaev
Biography
German Sadulaev was born in 1973, in the town of Shali, in the Chechen-Ingush ASSR, to a Chechen father and Terek Cossack mother. In 1989, aged sixteen, he left Chechnya to study law at Leningrad State University. Today he lives and works as a lawyer in St Petersburg. German Sadulaev’s first book, Radio FUCK, told the urban tales of thirty-somethings in St Petersburg. It made no mention of Chechnya.
After the publication of his second book, I am a Chechen!, which was nominated for the National Bestseller Prize, critics acclaimed Sadulaev as 'the literary find of the year'. Much more than a war novel, I am a Chechen! is a lyrical fusion of exotic legends, stories and memories. Sadulaev's next works, Snowstorm, or The Myth of the End of the World, a grotesque fantasy satire about social Darwinism, and The Tablet, a bold juxtaposition of the ancient Caspian kingdom of Khazaria with modern global capitalism, have also garnered positive critical notices.
His latest novel, The Raid on Shali, a lyrical meditation on life in Chechnya in the 1990s, was shortlisted for the 2010 Russian Booker and the Big Book Prize.
Books /selected/
Шалинский рейд / The Raid on Shali (2010)
Таблетка / The Tablet (2008)
Радио FUCK / Radio FUCK (2006)
Я – чеченец! / I am a Chechen! (2006)
In Translation
in English
I am a Chechen! (2010)
Prizes and awards
2010 - Shortlisted for the Big Book Prize
2010 - Shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize
2008 - Shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize
2008 - Shortlisted for the National Bestseller Prize