Alexey Polyarinov

Alexey Polyarinov was born on December 27, 1986 in the village of Voskho, Kaluga Region, and spent his childhood in the village of Rassvet, Rostov Region. Such is the joke of fate: the two main places of his life turned out to be synonymous. He studied at the Engineering and Reclamation Institute. In five years of study, he learned only one thing - that concrete hardens for 28 days, and he still does not know what to do with this mysterious knowledge.

Today he is a popular blogger, columnist for several online publications (including Gorky, Pollen and Afisha), translator and writer. He considers his meta-novel Center of Gravity, a finalist for several major literary awards, to be his debut, and prefers to call his previously written Landscape with the Fall of Icarus his “zero”.

Favorite hobby: literary translation of books. He translated from English the novel "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell, the book "Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain" by Oliver Sacks, as well as the novel "Infinite Jest" by the American writer David Foster Wallace, written in 1996.