Viktor Nikitin (writer)


Viktor Nikolaevich Nikitin was a Russian writer, playwright and editor. He was a member of the Union of writers of Russia.

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. 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; 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.
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.

Death

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

Selected works

Will disappear like birds. Tsentral'no-Chernozemnoye kn. izd-vo, Voronezh, 2007Two stories // Rise. - 1995. - No. 1-2.
  • // Russian binding. - 2002, November 3.
  • // Russian binding. - 2001, September 8.
  • // Star. - 2011. - No. 10.
  • // Russian binding. - 2010, September 27.
  • // Russian binding. - 2004, April 15.
  • // Rise. - 1996. - No. 7.Mastering space: Stories and stories. - 2013.
  • // Russian binding. - 2003, September 21.
  • // Literary newspaper. - 2011, January 26.
  • // Russian binding. - 2006, March 19.
  • // Russian binding. - 2005, March 15.
  • // Russian binding. - 2004, March 8.For you — 2: Sat. stories / Civil Literary Forum of Russia. - M. : Publishing house "PoRog", 2012. Playing with a stranger: Stories. - Voronezh, Center for Spiritual Revival of the Black Earth Region, 2013—320 p. Nowadays. Anthology of Contemporary Russian Literature. Volume 4. - M. ; "Publishing House of the Literary Institute named after A. M. Gorky "; M. : Publishing house of the magazine "Youth"; Literary Fund "The Road of Life", 2013. Modern Voronezh prose - Voronezh: GBUK VO "Rise" magazine, 2015. Life the other way. - Tambov: LLC "TPS", 2017.

Awards and recognition

  • Prize of the "Russian binding" portal - "for the best story published in 2001"
  • Prize of the "Rise" magazine - "for works published in 2001–2002"
  • Prize "Russian binding" - "for the novel" Disappear like birds "
  • Prize "Russian speech" of the magazine "Rise" - "for stories published in the magazine in 2001–2003."
  • Prize "Russian Binding" - "for the play "Songs of the Working Class"".
  • Prize "Native Speech" - for the best prose in 2012.
  • Prize "Koltsovsky Krai" - for journalism.
  • Prize "Koltsovsky Krai" - for prose.
  • Prize "Koltsovsky Territory" - for the book "Life in the Other Side".