Career Īfter Oberlin, he worked a series of jobs, as a writer, for non-profit organizations in New York. He is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York City, and Oberlin College in Ohio, where he earned a degree in politics, in 1995, with a senior thesis on the former Soviet republics of Georgia, Moldova and Tajikistan. He did not shed his thick Russian accent until the age of 14. Shteyngart immigrated to the United States in 1979 and was brought up in Queens, New York, with no television in the apartment in which he lived, where English was not the household language. When he was five, he wrote a 100-page comic novel. His father worked as an engineer in a LOMO camera factory his mother was a pianist. He comes from a Jewish family, with an ethnically Russian maternal grandparent, and describes his family as typically Soviet. Petersburg-which he alternately calls "St. Much of his work is satirical.īorn Igor Semyonovich Shteyngart ( Russian: Игорь Семёнович Штейнгарт) in the Soviet Union, he spent the first seven years of his childhood living in a square dominated by a huge statue of Vladimir Lenin in what is now St. He is the author of five novels (including Absurdistan and Super Sad True Love Story) and a memoir. Gary Shteyngart ( English: / ˈ ʃ t aɪ n ɡ ɑːr t/ born July 5, 1972) is a Soviet-born American writer. Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (present-day Saint Petersburg, Russia) Gary Shteyngart at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
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