Question: Which writer was born first, Sasha Sokolov or Iain Banks?

Context articles: The Wasp Factory
Walking on Glass
Complicity (film)
Iain Banks
The Crow Road
Transition (novel)
Sasha Sokolov
The State of the Art
Whit (novel)
A School for Fools

The Wasp Factory is the first novel by Scottish writer Iain Banks, published in 1984.
 Before the publication of "The Wasp Factory," Banks had written several science fiction novels that had not been accepted for publication.
 Banks decided to try a more mainstream novel in the hopes that it would be more readily accepted, and wrote about a psychopathic teenager living on a remote Scottish island.
 According to Banks, this allowed him to treat the story as something resembling science fiction – the island could be envisaged as a planet, and Frank, the protagonist, almost as an alien.
 Following the publication and success of "The Wasp Factory", Banks began to write full-time and would go on to write several more novels before his death in 2013, including several acclaimed science fiction novels that formed the Culture series.
Walking on Glass is the second novel by Scottish writer Iain Banks, published in 1985.
 Banks wrote several more novels before his death in 2013, including several acclaimed science fiction novels that formed the Culture series.
Complicity (or Retribution in the US market) is a 2000 film based on the novel "Complicity" by Iain Banks.
 The screenplay was written by Bryan Elsley.
 It was directed by Gavin Millar.
 These two had previously adapted Banks's "The Crow Road" into a TV serial.
Iain Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) was a Scottish author.
 He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies ( ).
The Crow Road is a novel by the Scottish writer Iain Banks, published in 1992.
Transition is a novel by Iain Banks, first published in 2009.
 The American edition was published under the name "Iain M. Banks", which is the name Banks used for his science fiction work.
Sasha Sokolov (born Александр Всеволодович Соколов/"Alexander Vsevolodovitch Sokolov" on November 6, 1943, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a paradoxical writer of Russian literature.
The State of the Art is a short story collection by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1991.
 The collection includes some stories originally published under his other byline, Iain Banks as well as the title novella and others set in Banks' Culture fictional universe.
Whit, or, Isis amongst the unsaved is a novel by the Scottish writer Iain Banks, published in 1995.
 Isis Whit, a young but important member of a small, quirky cult in Scotland, narrates.
 The community suspects that Isis' cousin Morag is in danger, and sends Isis out to help.
A School for Fools (Школа для дураков) is a novel written by Sasha Sokolov in the 1960s.
 "A School for Fools" was first circulated via 'samizdat,' or self-publication through underground connections.
 However, the novel was formally published in 1976 in U.S. (samizdat).
 Школа для дураков is often classified as a work of phantasmagoric modernism.
 Vladimir Nabokov called it "an enchanting, tragic, and touching work."