Russian philology
book copies dropped several times in comparison to Soviet era, and it took about a decade to
revive.
Among the most discussed authors of this period were Victor Pelevin, who gained popularity
with first short stories and then novels, novelist and playwright Vladimir Sorokin, and the
poet Dmitry Prigov. A relatively new trend in Russian literature is that female short story
writers Tatyana Tolstaya or Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, and novelists Lyudmila Ulitskaya or
Dina Rubina have come into prominence. The tradition of the classic Russian novel continues
with such authors as Mikhail Shishkin and Vasily Aksyonov.
Detective stories and thrillers have proven a very successful genre of new Russian literature:
in the 1990s serial detective novels by Alexandra Marinina, Polina Dashkova and Darya
Dontsova were published in millions of copies. In the next decade Boris Akunin who wrote
more sophisticated popular fiction, e.g
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