Denis Osokin

Prose writer, poet, playwright, screenwriter, philologist and folklorist. Born in 1977 in Kazan, where he lives to this day. He studied at the University of Warsaw in the Faculty of Psychology, graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Kazan University, and is completing a dissertation at the Department of Folklore of Syktyvkar University. He worked in Kazan in television, including on documentary films about the traditional culture of the peoples of the Volga region, and headed the Center for Russian Folklore. His prose and poetry have been published in journals and almanacs such as Znamya, Oktyabr, Babylon, Ulov, and others. His research interests are the folklore and traditional culture of the Perm Finns and the Russian North. Denis Osokin’s earliest publications, which appeared in various journals and on the Internet in the early 2000s, attracted the attention of readers and critics. Osokin is the creator of a special genre of short book — the book-cycle, which may include both prose and poetic texts; the apparent stylization of individual works after the literature of the 1920s and 1930s in Osokin’s writing is an additional device for creating an unusual and completely original picture of the world.