They've announced that Vladimir Makanin has been awarded the 2012 European Prize for Literature (not to be confused with the multi-author European Union Prize for Literature ...).
"Solzhenitsyn meets Kafka in two novellas of surreal bleakness that mark Makanin's U.S. debut" said Publishers Weekly about Escape Hatch back in 1996 (get your copy at Amazon.co.uk; it seems to be out of print in the US), but he doesn't seem to have really caught on in English. Though The Loss did appear in Northwestern University Press' excellent 'Writings from an Unbound Europe'-series; get your copy at Amazon.com.
"Solzhenitsyn meets Kafka in two novellas of surreal bleakness that mark Makanin's U.S. debut" said Publishers Weekly about Escape Hatch back in 1996 (get your copy at Amazon.co.uk; it seems to be out of print in the US), but he doesn't seem to have really caught on in English. Though The Loss did appear in Northwestern University Press' excellent 'Writings from an Unbound Europe'-series; get your copy at Amazon.com.