- The first story - "The Sorcerer Ignat and People" - was published in "Science and Religion" in 1989.
- According to the results of the 43rd Eurocon (European Fiction Fans Convention, 2021), Viktor Pelevin was recognized as the best writer.
- He is not a public figure: he does not give interviews and does not appear at events.
- Pelevin is often referred to as postmodernists, and his works become the subject of research by scientists.
- Recognition for Viktor Pelevin did not come immediately, although nominations have been raining down on him since 1990. But already in 1993, Pelevin received the Small Booker for the collection "Blue Lantern".
- Pelevin's works have been published in translations in 35 countries.
- Viktor Pelevin graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute and worked for some time at the Department of Electric Transport. On fan forums, they claim that he wrote a dissertation on the electric drive of a city trolleybus with an asynchronous motor. But there is no data on such scientific work.
- Pelevin's novel "Generation P" became a cult. More than 3.5 million copies of the novel have been sold worldwide.
- He worked in the journals "Face to Face", "Science and Religion".
- It is believed that international recognition happened after the cult novel "Chapaev and Emptiness" was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Prize in 2001. But Pelevin received the German Literary Prize of Richard Schoenfeld a year earlier for Generation P.
- Filmmakers in Russia and abroad love Viktor Pelevin's books. A film adaptation of the cult "Generation P" was released in 2011 and to this day remains the most popular and highly appreciated among all visualizations of the writer's works. In 2017, director Viktor Ginzburg acquired the rights to shoot a film based on the novel "Empire V".
- The writer did not have and does not have social media accounts. But there are quite a lot of fake "pelevins" on social networks - sometimes they even give interviews.
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