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Nikolai Anov

Died in 1980

Nikolai Anov, whose real name was Ivanov, was born on 30 December 1891 in Saint Petersburg into a working-class family, and published his first story in Pravda in 1914. In the twenties he worked for newspapers in Ust-Kamenogorsk and Semipalatinsk, then at the journal Sibirskie ogni, and was managing editor of Krasnaya nov' in Moscow. Arrested in 1932 and exiled to Arkhangelsk, after the war he settled in Alma-Ata, translated Kazakh tales into Russian along with part of Auezov's epic, received the Abai Prize in 1970 and died in Alma-Ata on 18 July 1980.

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