Oleg Ermakov
Oleg Yermakov is a Russians, Russian writer. He was born in Smolensk in 1961, and worked in a forest reserve near Lake Baikal before doing his military service during the Soviet–Afghan War, war in Afghanistan. His experiences formed the basis of an acclaimed collection of short stories, titled ''Afghan Stories'' (1991). He followed up with a novel, ''The Mark of the Beast'' (1994) which was nominated for the Russian Booker Prize. His war writing has been compared to that of Tolstoy and the literature of the Vietnam War. Ermakov's work is heavily engaged with the question of place as evidenced by books such as ''Rainbow and Heather'', a 2018 Big Book Award finalist, set in Smolensk, and ''The Tungus’s Song'', a 2017 Yasnaya Polyana Award finalist, set in Siberia. Other places important in his work are the Altai Mountains, Altai, Baikal, and Barguzin (river), Barguzin areas as well as Afghanistan. The 2012 collection of stories, ''The Arithmetic of War'', returns to this theme i ...
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