Viktor Pelevin — writer (gen p) with roots in the USSR
Viktor Pelevin is a Russian novelist born in Moscow who became the defining voice of post-Soviet Russian literature — his novels Omon Ra, Generation P, and The Sacred Book of the Werewolf combining Buddhist philosophy, Soviet nostalgia, advertising satire, and metaphysical fiction into a uniquely Russian literary form. He lives in complete seclusion.
Tracing the roots — Moscow
Born in Moscow in 1962 and trained as an engineer before becoming a writer, Pelevin emerged from the late Soviet underground literary scene to become the most read and discussed Russian novelist of the post-Soviet generation. He has never given a public interview and his whereabouts are unknown — publishing a new novel every year from complete obscurity.
Moscow. At the time, this region was one of the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union.