Vladimir Krupin

Vladimir Nikolayevich Krupin (, September 7, 1941) is a Soviet Russian writer, editor, religious author and tutor. The major proponent of the Village prose movement, noted for his quirky, folklore-rooted style of writing, Krupin is best known for his 1980 Novy Mir-published satirical novel Zhivaya Voda (Aqua Vitae).

Biography Vladimir Krupin was born in the village of Kilmez, Kirovskaya Oblast, to a local forester. In 1957, after graduating from school, he joined a local newspaper. In 1961, having demobilized from the Soviet Army, Krupin became a member of the CPSU. In 1967 he graduated from N.K.Krupskaya Moscovskaya Oblast Pedagogical Institute and spent several years teaching Russian language in schools. Krupin joined the Sovremennik Publishers as an editor and at one point became its partorg, but was fired after the publication of Georgy Vladimov's Three Minutes of Silence. In 2011 he received the Patriarchal Literary Prize.

Selected bibliography Zyorna (Grains, 1974, short story collection) Do vecherney zvezdy (Before the Evening Star, 1977, short story collection) Zhivaya Voda (Aqua Vitae, 1980) Verbnoye voskresenye (Pussy-willow Sunday, 1981) Sorokovoy den''' (The 40th Day, 1981) Vo vsyu ivanovskuyu (Full Throttle, 1985) Doroga Domoy (The Way Home, 1985) Vyatskaya tetrad (The Vyatka Notebook, 1987, short story collection) Prosti, proshchay (Forgive Me and Let Go, 1988) Kak tolko, tak srazu (Once... Then at Once, 1992) Krestny khod (The Procession, 1993) Povesti poslednego vremeni (Tales of the Later Times, 2003) Dymka'' (The Haze, 2007, collection)