Skorobogatov.com
Title
Aleksandr Skorobogatov. The official web site.
Description
I was born in 1963 in Grodno, a tiny Byelorussian town near the border with Poland. Studied drama and film at the Byelorussian state institute for theatre and art (Minsk, Belarus), theology at the St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute (Paris, France), graduated from the Gorky Literary Institute (Moscow, Russia).
I decided to become a writer rather early, when I was about 18-19 years old, and while still studying at the theater institute. I left the institute in order to dedicate myself fully to literature, planning to become a full-time writer within a few months. It’s funny and touching to think back of that childish belief that eventually everything would turn out well, and that my texts would be published without having to sell my soul and participate in any ideological games: it was the late Soviet-Era in all its terminal glory, huge Belarus had only one state-owned publishing house and one state-owned literary magazine, and my dreams were entirely unfounded, though excusable owing to youth with all its faith, trust, self-confidence and tons of uncensored naivety.
Sobering came soon. In an unofficial chat with an editor of this one and only literary magazine, I was told that despite the fact that my texts were good I would never become a published author; my writing was too ‘different’, ideologically unacceptable and politically incorrect. His advice was ‘to change my style and views’, if I was serious about becoming a writer, — advice I heard once too often during the subsequent years, and which I had absolutely no intention of following.
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