Oleg Zaionchkovski

ABOUT SERGEEV I GORODOK
"The debutant Oleg Zaionchkovski, author of the novel “Sergeev and The Town” has overshadowed the recognised authors whose books have not made it on to the list of finalists… And quite rightly, the Jury has recognised the extraordinary skill of this debutant.”
MOSKOVSKI KOMSOMOLETS

"... the original freshness which this book so clearly exudes, not through the objects of the description, not even through the amusing characters, but through the intonation – which comes across as so light and cheerful that it appears completely un-Russian.”
NOVY OCHEVIDETS

"Using discreet metamorphoses these short novels transform themselves into a completely epic portrait."
NINA NAZAROVA

"I do not think that the best competitor for the national bestseller, Oleg Zaionchkovski, needs to be sad that he didn’t ‘make it’. He is a serious writer and knows his value … He has proven that lyricism and remaining true to oneself do not necessarily mean monotony – it is all the more interesting, what this writer, an artist to the core, will put into words in the future.”
ANDREI NEMZER

"It is a long time since we have had a narrator of such vigour … Zaionchkovski has managed to recreate his wide-ranging, fresh and dynamic literary cosmos out of a sphere long since appropriated by literature and which, so it seemed, had been sufficiently reinvented and in fact almost worn out – the provincial town in the back of beyond.”
RUSSKY ZHURNAL

"Oleg Zaionchkovski finds a rhythm, a prose tone which comes close to the very best and the most animated classic Russian prose”.
LEONID KOSTYUKOV