Leonid Latynin

Leonid Latynin was born in 1938 in a small town on the Volga. After a series of jobs and army service he graduated from Moscow University and worked in various publishing houses while writing poetry and studying pre-Christian Russian culture. He published six collections of his verse, but only managed to publish his novels after perestroika: The Face-Maker and the Muse in 1988; Sleeper at Harvest Time in 1993, and Stavr and Sara in 1994.

Sleeper at Harvest Time

Emelya had a blood-type of which there was not a single gram in any one of those approaching; he was all alone against a monolithic "them." He was

By Leonid Latynin

/ 23 May 2006