Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

male, 76 years old
Antisemitism, poet, babi yar, stalinism, samizdat, MaximGorkyLiteratureInstitute
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born July 18, 1933) is a Russian poet. He also directed several films.
Pavel Kogan

Pavel Kogan

male, deceased (1942)
Jewish, poet, World War II, Soviet poet, Russian, soviet…MaximGorkyLiteratureInstitute
Pavel Davidovich Kogan was a Soviet poet. Though born in Kiev, Pavel and his family moved to Moscow in 1922. He studied at the Maxim Gorky...
Lina Kostenko

Lina Kostenko

female, 79 years old
poet, Soviet dissident, 17th century, ukrainian, dissident, MaximGorkyLiteratureInstitute
Lina Kostenko (born on March 19, 1930 in Rzhyshchiv, Kiev Oblast, Ukraine) is a leading representative of Ukrainian poets of the sixties known as...
Knuts Skujenieks

Knuts Skujenieks

male, 73 years old
Mordova, prison camp, translation, prison, journalist, Victim of Soviet repressions…MaximGorkyLiteratureInstitute
Knuts Skujenieks (born September 5, 1936 in Riga) is a Latvian poet, journalist and translator from around fifteen European languages. He spent his...
Natig Rasulzade

Natig Rasulzade

male, 60 years old
writer, CIS countries, Azerbaijan Writers Union, Azerbaijan Technical University, Azerbaijan Cinematographers Union, Azerbaijanfilm…MaximGorkyLiteratureInstitute, Polytechnic Institute
Natig Rasulzade is a contemporary Azerbaijani writer. He was born in Baku on June 5, 1949. At age 17, he was already publishing in “Youth of Az...
Fyodor Gladkov

Fyodor Gladkov

male, deceased (1958)
Old Believers, MaximGorkyLiteratureInstitute, soviet, saratov, Stalin Prize winner, Russian
Fyodor Vasilyevich Gladkov was a Soviet Socialist realist writer born on in Chernavka, Saratov gubernia to a family of Old Believers. He died on...
Ibrahim Al-Koni

Ibrahim Al-Koni

male, 61 years old
novelist, Ghadamis, Tuareg, libya, libyan, journalist…MaximGorkyLiteratureInstitute
Ibrahim Al-Koni is a Libyan writer and one of the most prolific Arabic novelists. Born in 1948 in Ghadamis Oasis, Ibrahim al-Koni was brought up on...
Yury Kazakov

Yury Kazakov

male, deceased (1982)
Russian, Short story writer, MaximGorkyLiteratureInstitute, Yuri Pavlovich Kazakov, Ivan Bunin
Yuri Pavlovich Kazakov (August 8, 1927--November 29, 1982) was a Russian author of short stories, often compared to Anton Chekhov and Ivan Bunin....