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After high school Pelevin received a degree in electromechanical engineering from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, then attended seminars in creative writing at the Literature Institute. As an editor of "Science and Religion" magazine, he was responsible for an ongoing series of articles on Eastern mysticism.
Pelevin's first story was published in 1989, and for the next 3 years his short stories appeared in various magazines and compilations, making him a prominent figure among the SF "in" crowd and garnering several awards. In 1992 a book of Pelevin's collected stories The Blue Lantern received the first annual Russian Little Booker Prize, and next year his first novel.
Pelevin typically shuns the public eye. He rarely gives interviews; during those interviews, he is known to talk about the nature of the mind rather than his own writing. He has permitted all of his texts in Russian predating 2000 to be published on the Internet for non-commercial use [1]. Some novels are also available as voice files in Russian.