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Jun 14, 2024 · When the novelist Mikhail Sholokhov, also a Nobel Prize winner, praised the Soviet government’s imprisonment of dissident writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, the editor and poet Aleksandr Tvardovsky, joined by novelist Lydia Chukovskaia and others, expelled him from “Russian literature.” “Sholokhov is now a former writer ...
1 day ago · The cult figures of the literature of the Second World War were the war poets Konstantin Simonov, arguably most famous for his 1941 poem Wait for Me, and Aleksandr Tvardovsky, author of the long poem Vasily Tyorkin (1941–45), chief editor of the literary magazine Novy Mir.
2 days ago · Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian author and Soviet dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system.
5 days ago · Cancer Ward is a semi-autobiographical novel by Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in 1967, and banned in the Soviet Union in 1968. The novel tells the story of a small group of cancer patients in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in the post-Stalinist Soviet Union.
Jun 25, 2024 · Also in 1970 the liberal editor of the influential monthly Novy Mir, Aleksandr Tvardovsky, had to resign. The might of the state crushed overt cultural dissent, but it stimulated the development of a counterculture.
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3 days ago · He is also an award-winning translator, and has translated widely from Spanish and Russian, including works by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Manuel Vilas and Camilo José Cela. Sasha Dugdale has published six collections with Carcanet, most recently, in May, The Strongbox.
