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We are proud to announce that Vladimir Sorokin is the latest resident of the Writing the Prado 2026 programme, following Leïla Slimani’s residency earlier this year. A collaboration between the Prado Museum and the LOEWE FOUNDATION, Writing the Prado invites leading international writers to draw on the museum’s history, collections and activities as inspiration for new writing. The resulting work is published by the museum and Granta en español magazine. 

Vladimir Sorokin (Bykovo, 1955) began his career in the 1970s as an artist and book illustrator before joining the Moscow literary underground. Provocative and visionary, his literary universe occupies a unique place in contemporary Russian culture. His work has been translated into more than 25 languages and has received numerous prizes and awards, including the Andrei Bely Prize and the Maxim Gorky Prize. In 2013, he was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize.

Leïla Slimani (Rabat, 1981) studied at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris and the École Supérieure de Commerce, and worked as a journalist for L’Express and Jeune Afrique before turning to writing full-time. She is the author of several titles, including Adèle (2019), The Scent of Flowers at Night (2023) and the Country of Others trilogy. In 2016, she was awarded the Prix Goncourt for Chanson douce (Lullaby).