Andrey Rubanov is the author of the novels “Patriot”, “Get ready for war”, “Finist - the clear falcon”. Winner of the "National Bestseller" and "Yasnaya Polyana" awards, finalist of the "Big Book" award. In the new collection of short prose "Hard and Gloomy" Rubanov's "I-hero" again appears on the stage, inheriting Limonov's artistic and non-fiction "I-literature" and Dovlatov, the same as in the novels “Plant and it will grow”, “The Great Dream”, “Yod” and the collections “Shameful Feats” and “Also Motherland”: Soviet boy, soldier, businessman, ex-convict, film screenwriter, husband and father.