Yuri Mamleev

Yuri Vitalyevich Mamleev, also Mamleyev or Mamleiev, was a prominent Russian novelist who began writing in the 1960s and won the Pushkin Prize in 2000. He is considered the founder of metaphysical realism as a literary genre. His best known work, The Sublimes, was a samizdat novel published in 1966 and translated into English in 2014 by Marian Schwartz.