Collection: Alexander Snegirev

Alexander Snegirev was born in 1980 in Moscow. He won Russia’s prestigious Debut Prize for his collected stories, Russian Rhymes (2005). His short novel How We Bombed America won the Crown Prize of the Writers’ Union in 2007. In 2009 Petroleum Venus was shortlisted for the National Bestseller Prize, nominated for the Russian Booker, and was on the bestsellers list on OZON.ru (the Russian equivalent of Amazon) for a year.