Vladimir Semyonovich Makanin (; 13 March 1937 – 1 November 2017) was a Russian writer. He was born in Orsk, Soviet Union. In 1963 he took a course in script-writing, and then worked in the publishing house "Sovietskiy Pisatel" ("The Soviet Writer"). Makanin's writing style may be categorized as realist. In 2012, he won the European Prize for Literature.