Viktor Nikitin (writer) explained

Viktor Nikolaevich Nikitin (15 November 1960 – 30 September 2020) was a Russian writer, playwright and editor. He was a member of the Union of writers of Russia.[1]

Biography

Nikitin graduated from the Voronezh Institute of Civil Engineering in the road traffic department. He lived in Voronezh and worked in his early years as a prose editor in the magazine Pod"yom; from 2005 to 2015, he was the editor of the prose department of the «Russkiy pereplot» portal.

Writing career

Nikitin started writing in 1986 (when his first story, Clever, was published in the Voronezh newspaper Molodoy Kommunar). His works were published in the magazines Rise, Moscow, Zvezda, Our Contemporary, October, Siberian Lights, Russian Echo, Gates of Siberia, Don, North, Russian Federation today; and in the newspapers Komsomolskaya Pravda, Literaturnaya Gazeta, Uchitelskaya Gazeta, Rossiyskiy Pisatel, Interpol-Express and others. He wrote stories, essays, and plays, including Open / Closed, 2004; Viva Stalin!, 2006; Drinking with Chekhov, 2006;[2] [3] A horse has hooves, a man has legs, 2007; Death of the Middle Class, 2008; Afternoon Cruel Disappointment, 2009; and the novel Songs of the Working Class, published in 2011.[4]

The main theme of his work was the impossibility of the presence of a traditional person in the modern world, with a place for "black humor" and mysticism, irony and sarcasm, satire and grotesque.

His 2005 novel Will Disappear Like Birds was a complex, multifaceted work about the life of a "superfluous person" in the Soviet era, and then in democratic market times, saturated with allusions and presenting a phantasmagoric picture of an unstable world.[5]

Death

Nikitin died from COVID-19 in Voronezh, on 30 September 2020, aged 59, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia.[6] [7] [8]

Selected works

Awards and recognition

References

  1. Web site: Никитин Виктор Николаевич. Литераторы — члены воронежского отделения СПР. Официальный сайт Воронежского отделения Союза писателей России. 2013-02-08. 2013-04-17. https://archive.today/20130417025837/http://www.lit-vrn.ru/w_42.html. dead.
  2. Web site: Никитин Виктор. Некоммерческий Фонд «Всероссийский драматургический конкурс „Действующие лица“». 2013-02-08.
  3. Web site: /nikitin02nov04.html Open / Closed. pereplet.ru. 2020-10-30.
  4. Web site: Виктор Никитин - Песни рабочего класса. pereplet.ru. 2020-10-30.
  5. Web site: Обновление имен (Вступительная статья о дебютантах А. Воронцова) (Наш современник || N3 2005). nash-sovremennik.ru. 2020-10-30.
  6. Web site: В Воронеже умер писатель Виктор Никитин. Последние свежие новости Воронежа и области - РИА Воронеж. riavrn.ru. 30 September 2020 . 2020-10-30.
  7. Web site: В Воронеже от коронавируса умер писатель Виктор Никитин - последние новости Воронежа и области на сегодня - главные и свежие события в городе за неделю на официальном сайте СМИ - Интернет-канал "TV Губерния". tv-gubernia.ru. 2020-10-30.
  8. Web site: Заразившийся коронавирусом писатель Виктор Никитин умер в Воронеже. De Facto. 2020-10-30.
  9. Web site: Publishing plans for 2013 . Official site of the Voronezh branch of the Writers' Union Russia . 2013-02-08 . 2013-03-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130307143827/http://www.lit-vrn.ru/all-news.html . dead .

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