Victor Pogostin
Bewildering Stories biography
Victor Pogostin was born in Moscow. He graduated from The School of Translators of the Moscow State Institute for Foreign Languages, worked for the Soviet Trade Mission in India, taught a Russian Language and Culture course at the Aligarh Muslim University, served in the Long Range Naval Reconnaissance Aviation of the Northern Fleet.
After his return from military service, he defended his PhD dissertation on Ernest Hemingway’s Nonfiction. For many years, he worked in the USSR Academy of Sciences while working as a freelance author/translator for national newspapers and literary magazines throughout the former Soviet Union.
In addition to translating fiction and nonfiction into Russian, he has compiled, edited, and written introductions and commentaries for over a dozen books by North American authors, including the works of Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck.
In 1993, he relocated to Canada with his wife and son. In North America, his non-fiction stories were published in The National Post (August 1999), Canadian Literature magazine, Russian Life magazine (Vermont), The Epoch Times (U.S. & Canadian editions), As You Were:The Military Review, vol.14, May 31, 2021 (U.S.), The Blotter magazine (U.S.), The Other Side of Hope (UK).
His book Russian Roulette, a collection of non-fiction stories, was published in the U.S. in 2021.
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