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Writer. Born on
August 20, 1932
in Kazan.
His mother and father were both harshly repressed by the
Stalinist machine.
In 1956 Aksyonov graduated from the Leningrad Medical
Institute and worked as a doctor. In 1959 he was first
published, and it was not until 1960 and the publication of
his story Colleagues in Yunost that he started
gaining popularity in Soviet society.
It has been said that Aksyonov had created a new kind Soviet
hero -- one who is detached from the ideologies and false
motivations that were once character of Soviet fiction.
Aksyonov emerged as one of the most celebrated Soviet
dissident writers of his generation, especially during the
late 1970s and throughout the 1980s.
His international fame occurred in the late 1970s, when he
and several other writers, including Bitov
and Vysotsky, published a literary almanac
titled Metropol in 1979. That
year he resigned from the Soviet
Union of Writers
and the following year left for the
United States, where he
lives to this day in
Washington.
Since the late 1980s Aksyonov has come out with several
novels, among which the most popular are: The Winter's
Hero (1996), The New Sweet Style (1999), The
Island of Crimea, The Burn. |
