Education
He graduated from Moscow State University and worked as a mathematician in the Military Academy until the early 1960s.
He graduated from Moscow State University and worked as a mathematician in the Military Academy until the early 1960s.
Makanin is a writer of novels and short stories. In 1963 he took a course in scriptwriting, and then worked in the publishing house Sovietskiy Pisatel (The Soviet Writer). Makanin"s writing style may be categorized as realist.
His forte lies in depicting the psychological impact of everyday life experiences.