About Sasha Sokolov Sasha Sokolov was born in Canada in 1943 and grew up in the Soviet Union, which he left in 1975. He received the Andrei Bely Prize in 1981 and the Pushkin Prize for literature in 1996. Books by Sasha Sokolov In the House of the Hanged Essays and Vers Libres by (author) Sasha Sokolov translated by Alexander Boguslawski