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Volodymyr Arenev (Ukrainian: Володимир Арєнєв, Russian: Владимир Аренев) is a pen name of Ukrainian science fiction, fantasy award-winning writer, journalist and screenwriter Volodymyr Puziy. Writes in Russian and Ukrainian languages, resides in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Volodymyr Arenev | |
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| Born | October 1, 1978 Kyiv, Ukraine |
| Occupation | writer, journalist, editor, screenwriter, translator |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Period | 1998 — present |
| Genre | Science-fiction, Fantasy for adults and young adults |
Volodymyr Kostiantynovych Puziy (Ukrainian: Володимир Костянтинович Пузій) was born October 1, 1978, in Kyiv. In school he was very fond of biology, attended young naturalists group at Kyiv Zoo, admired Gerald Durrell and James Herriot, and seriously engaged in keeping exotic amphibians and insects in vivarium at home. In 1995 applied to Biological faculty, but failed.[1] For the next year Arenev worked as a sweeper at Kyiv Zoo. In 1996 he successfully applied to Institute of Journalism of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.[2] After receiving Master’s Degree with distinction he started teaching the history of literature and numerous students’ courses on writing skills.
For the time being Arenev has 21 books published in Ukrainian and Russian. His numerous short stories and novellas have been published in Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, Estonian, French and English[3] (more than 150 publications in periodicals and anthologies),.[4] Debuted in fiction in 1998 with science fiction short story "Guardian Angel" (Russian: Ангел-хранитель) published in the first issue "Maidan XXI" anthology.
First usage of pen-name Vladimir Arenev dates 2000, when he started a series of typical mainstream post-Tolkien fantasy.[5] This period ended at 2005 and after a pause Arenev changed the format, working on fiction with a social narrative since 2008. Arenev’s short stories and novellas were published at such anthologies as "Best of the year" (Russian: Лучшее за год) and "New Legends" (Russian: Новые легенды) at Azbuka Publishing House (Russian: Азбука), "SF&Fantasy" (Russian: Фантастика) at AST, "Fantasy" (Russian: Фэнтези) at Eksmo, and in several magazines in Ukraine, Russia, Lithuania, Germany and Poland.
Under his name Volodymyr Puziy is known as awarded literary critic and book reviewer, lecturer at SF&Fantasy conventions on Literary criticism issues.[6] Also works as a freelance journalist for newspapers and magazines in Kyiv, Moscow and Saint-Petersburg.[7]
Arenev also participated in editorial process of numerous fiction anthologies. Currently supervises and edits the "Dark fantasy" series of ‘Ripol-classic’ (Russian: Рипол-классик) Publishing House, Moscow. He wrote forewords and afterwords to the books of the well-known fantasy writers Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko, H. L. Oldie, Jacek Piekara, Dmytro Skiriuk. Translated Glen Cook’s "Tides Elba" short story and Andrzej Sapkowski’s "Spanienkreuz" into Russian (2011). Translation editor of Jacek Dukaj’s short novel "Serce Mroku", Jakub Nowak’s short novel (Russian: Доминичка говорит) and Jacek Piekara’s novels about Mordimer Madderdin published in Russia.
Volodymyr Arenev was awarded with various literary awards in the science fiction and fantasy in the Commonwealth of Independent States and Europe.[11] Featured awards are:
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