Ivan Shchegolikhin

Ivan Shchegolikhin was born on 1 April 1927 in Novotroitskoye, in the Kostanay region, into a family of peasants who had come from elsewhere. A pupil at an aviation school, he left it at the end of the war and in 1945, under another name, entered the medical institute of Alma-Ata; convicted in his fourth year, he spent three years in a camp, then was reinstated and graduated. He published his first short story in Prostor in 1954, headed its prose department there for twenty years and translated Kazakh classics into Russian. A People's Writer of Kazakhstan, he died in December 2010.

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• NovelСнега метельныеIvan Shchegolikhin · 1958not translated into EnglishLiterature