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Michael Idov

Michael Idov (Michael Mark Zilberman) is a Latvian-American novelist, screenwriter and director. [ 1 ] His works include films Leto (Cannes Main Competition, 2018 [ 2 ] ) and Th...

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Michael Idov (Michael Mark Zilberman) is a Latvian-American novelist, screenwriter and director.[1] His works include films Leto (Cannes Main Competition, 2018[2]) and The Humorist, German television series Deutschland 89, and novels Ground Up and The Collaborators.[3]

Biography

Family and early years

Michael Idov was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1976, to Jewish parents Mark Zilberman and Yelena Zilberman née Idov. His family immigrated into the U.S. as refugees in 1992, and were naturalized in 1998. After graduating from the University of Michigan with a BFA in Dramatic Writing and Film and Video Studies, Idov moved to New York City to start his writing career. His journalistic work, mostly for New York Magazine, garnered three National Magazine Awards and was featured in The Best American Magazine Writing collection.[4] His 2009 debut novel, Ground Up, became an unexpected bestseller in Russia in the author's own self-translation, and in 2012, Idov moved to Moscow to work as the editor in chief of GQ Russia. He quit the job and left Russia shortly after the annexation of Crimea in 2014; the experience formed the basis of his 2018 memoir, Dressed Up for a Riot.[5]

Private life

Idov lives in Berlin and Los Angeles with wife and frequent screenwriting collaborator Lily and daughter Vera.

Bilingualism

Idov writes in English and Russian, mostly keeping the two bodies of work separate and using the name "Mikhail Idov" (Михаил Идов) for his Russian-language output. In 2009, he became the first Anglophone writer since Vladimir Nabokov to republish a novel in a Russian self-translation.[6] Idov's unusual approach to transligualism and identity, which essentially involves maintaining two personas, has attracted some academic attention and analysis,[7] with one researcher, Dr. Adrian Wanner, noting his "refus[al] to openly play the 'Russian card,' the 'Jewish card,' or the 'immigrant card'.[8]" However, in 2022, responding to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Idov announced that he will not be writing in Russian as long as Vladimir Putin remains in power.[9]

Books

Filmografía

Película

Televisión

Referencias

  1. ↑ "Michael Idov" .
  2. ↑ "Michael IDOV" . Festival de Cannes . Consultado el 23 de julio de 2025 .
  3. ↑ "LOS COLABORADORES | Reseñas de Kirkus" .
  4. ↑ Lo mejor de la literatura estadounidense para revistas 2010. Columbia University Press. 17 de noviembre de 2010. ISBN 978-0-231-15753-7.
  5. ↑ "Vestidos para un motín" . Macmillan Publishers . Consultado el 28 de julio de 2025 .
  6. ↑ "El acto de la autotraducción | Jewish Book Council" . www.jewishbookcouncil.org . 14 de diciembre de 2009. Consultado el 28 de julio de 2025 .
  7. ↑ Wanner, Adrian (2013). "Lolita y Kofemolka: las autotraducciones de Vladimir Nabokov y Michael Idov del inglés al ruso" . Slavic and East European Journal . 57 (3): 450– 464. doi : 10.30851/57.3.006 . ISSN 0037-6752 . 
  8. ↑ Wanner, Adrian (2014). "Más allá del gueto ruso-estadounidense: la ficción de Keith Gessen y Michael Idov" . The Russian Review . 73 (2): 281– 296. doi : 10.1111/russ.10730 . ISSN 1467-9434 . 
  9. ↑ ""El idioma nunca es el enemigo": Por qué no escribiré en ruso mientras Putin esté en el poder . Vanity Fair . 28 de febrero de 2022.
  10. ↑ Idov, Michael (27 de enero de 2026). La caza del cormorán . Scribner. ISBN 978-1-6680-8228-7.