Valeria Gordeev | Granta

Valeria Gordeev

Valeria Gordeev is an author and illustrator living in Berlin. In 2023 she won the prestigious Ingeborg-Bachmann-Prize for ‘He Cleans’, an excerpt from her forthcoming novel with S. Fischer Verlag (autumn 2025). This manuscript has already received several awards, including the Floriana Biennale Prize for Literature in 2022.

Photograph © Franz and Henriette Friedrich

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Fiction | Issue 165
Fiction | Issue 165

He Cleans

Valeria Gordeev

‘He cleans. Cleans the sink, cleans the plughole, takes out the sink strainer and cleans the underside.’

Fiction by Valeria Gordeev, translated by Imogen Taylor.

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