Vladimir Voinovich

Vladimir Voinovich (1932-2018), born in Stalinabad, present-day Dushanbe, on 26 September 1932, was the son of a man arrested in 1936 and sent to a camp. He published his first prose texts in the Moscow journal Novy mir in the early 1960s. Subjected to pressure from the authorities, he had to leave the Soviet Union in 1980 and was stripped of his nationality; he regained it in 1990 and returned to live in Moscow. He died in July 2018.

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• NovelThe Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan ChonkinЖизнь и необычайные приключения солдата Ивана ЧонкинаVladimir Voinovich · 1969Literature