Are both Andrei Platonov and Edward Albee a writer?
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Andrei Platonov Andrei Platonov (Russian: Андре́й Плато́нов , ] ; August 28 [O.S. August 16] 1899 – January 5, 1951) was the pen name of Andrei Platonovich Klimentov (Russian: Андре́й Плато́нович Климе́нтов ), a Soviet Russian writer, playwright, and poet, whose works anticipate existentialism. Although Platonov was a Communist, most of his works were banned in his own lifetime for their skeptical attitude toward collectivization and other Stalinist policies, as well as for its experimental, avant-garde form. His famous works include the novels "The Foundation Pit" (Котлован) and "" (Чевенгур)
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Edward Albee Edward Franklin Albee III ( ; March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as "The Zoo Story" (1958), "The Sandbox" (1959), "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1962), and "A Delicate Balance" (1966). Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play.
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Alexander Kazantsev Alexander Petrovitch Kazantsev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Петро́вич Каза́нцев ; 2 September 1906 – 13 September 2002) was a popular Soviet science fiction writer and ufologist.
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Ilya Ehrenburg Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg (Russian: Илья́ Григо́рьевич Эренбу́рг , ] ; 27 January [O.S. 15 January] 1891 – 31 August 1967) was a Soviet writer, journalist, translator, and cultural figure.
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Andrey Valentinov Andréy Valentínov (Russian: Андрей Валентинов, Ukrainian: Андрій Валентинов) (born March 18, 1958) is the pen name of Ukrainian science/fantasy fiction writer Andréy Valentínovich Shmalkó. He resides in Kharkiv, Ukraine, and writes in Russian. Valentinov collaborates with other Russophone Ukrainian writers, such as H. L. Oldie and Marina and Sergey Dyachenko.
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Pyotr Boborykin Pyotr Dmitryevich Boborykin (Russian: Пётр Дми́триевич Боборы́кин ; – 12 August 1921) was a Russian writer, playwright, and journalist.
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Walter Nouvel Walter Feodorovich Nouvel (Russian: Вальтер Федорович Нувель ) (1871–1949) was a Russian émigré art-lover and writer. He co-wrote with Arnold Haskell a biography of Sergei Pavlovitch Diaghilev ("Diaghileff. His Artistic and Private life"), and was the ghost-writer of Igor Stravinsky's autobiography "Chronique de ma Vie (Chronicle of my life)".
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Paul Russell (novelist) Paul Russell is an American novelist, poet and short story writer. He is a two-time winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT fiction, in 2000 for "The Coming Storm" and in 2012 for "The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov". "The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov" is a fictionalized portrayal of a real person, the gay younger brother of Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov, about whom very little concrete biographical information is known.
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Andrey Dementyev (poet) Andrey Dmitriyevich Dementyev (Russian: Андре́й Дми́триевич Деме́нтьев ; ] ; born July 16, 1928 in Tver) is a Russian and Soviet poet, a laureate of Lenin’s Young Communist League Award (1981), a USSR State Prize (1985), and Bunin Prize (2007).
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Alexander Chudakov Alexander Pavlovich Chudakov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Па́влович Чудако́в ; February 2, 1938, Shchuchinsk – October 3, 2005, Moscow) was a Russian philologist and writer, known for his study of Chekhov, and for the novel "A Gloom is Cast Upon the Ancient Steps", which was awarded the Russian Booker Prize of the decade in 2011.
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An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (Russian: Неоконченная пьеса для механического пианино , "Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino " ) is a 1977 Soviet drama film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov, who also co-stars. It is based on Anton Chekhov's "Platonov".
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Igor Yefimov Igor Markovich Yefimov or Igor Efimov (Russian: И́горь Ма́ркович Ефи́мов; born August 8, 1937, Moscow) is an American (since 1978) philosopher, writer and publisher of Russian origin. Some of his works were published under the pen name Andrei Moscovit. Together with , Sergei Dovlatov, , and , he founded the Leningrad writers' group "City Dwellers" (Russian "Gorozhane"), whose works circulated in samizdat. He is a founder of Hermitage Publishers, publisher of works by such writers as Sergei Dovlatov.
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Albert Starchevsky Albert Vikentyevich Starchevsky (Russian: Альберт Викентьевич Старчевский , born Adalbert-Voytekh Starchevsky, Polish: "Adalbert-Wojciech Starczewski" , 28 April 1818, Kiev Governorate, Imperial Russia, — 7 October 1901, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia) was a Russian literary historian, journalist, editor, philologist, lexicographer and encyclopedist of Polish descent.
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A Writer's Diary A Writer's Diary (Russian: Дневник писателя ; "Dnevnik pisatelya") is a collection of non-fiction and fictional writings by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Taken from pieces written for a periodical which he founded and produced, it is normally published in two volumes: the first covering those published between 1873 and 1876, the second from 1877 and 1881.
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Viktor Klyushnikov Viktor Petrovich Klyushnikov (Russian: Виктор Петрович Клюшников , born 22 March 1841, village Leksianovka, Gzhatsk region, Smolensk Governorate, Imperial Russia, - 19 November 1892, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia) was a Russian writer, editor and journalist, whose debut novel, "Marevo" (Марево, Haze, "Russky Vestnik", 1864), was considered by contemporary Russian critics to be one of the four 'great anti-nihilist' novels of the time, alongside "Troubled Seas" by Alexey Pisemsky, "No Way Out" by Nikolai Leskov and "Demons" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Both Ivan Turgenev and Alexey K. Tolstoy reacted positively, hailing the arrival of the original, even if erratic literary talent, "who [was playing] with his gift in acrobatic fashion," according to Tolstoy.
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Alexander Ginzburg Alexander (Alik) Ilyich Ginzburg (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ильи́ч Ги́нзбург ; ] ; 21 November 1936, Moscow – 19 July 2002, Paris), was a Russian journalist, poet, human rights activist and dissident.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn ( ; Russian: Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын , ] ; 11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) (often Romanized to Alexandr or Alexander) was a Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer. He was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and communism and helped to raise global awareness of its Gulag forced labor camp system. He was allowed to publish only one work in the Soviet Union, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" (1962), in the periodical "Novy Mir". After this he had to publish in the West, most notably "Cancer Ward" (1968), "August 1914" (1971), and "The Gulag Archipelago" (1973). Solzhenitsyn was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". Solzhenitsyn was afraid to go to Stockholm to receive his award for fear that he would not be allowed to reenter. He was eventually expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974, but returned to Russia in 1994 after the state's dissolution.
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Sergey Elpatyevsky Sergey Yakovlovich Elpatyevsky (Russian: Серге́й Яковлевич Елпатьевский ), November 3, 1854 – January 9, 1933, was a Russian writer and doctor.
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Vladimir Nikolaevich Platonov Vladimir Nikolaevich Platonov (born July 28, 1941, Kiev, Ukrainian SSR) is a Soviet and Ukrainian scientist in the field of sports science.
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Andrei Bitov Andrei Georgiyevich Bitov (Russian: Андре́й Гео́ргиевич Би́тов , born Leningrad, 27 May 1937) is a prominent Russian writer.
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Georgiy Ball Georgiy Alexandrovich Ball (Russian: "Гео́ргий Алекса́ндрович Балл", June 9, 1927 – January 1, 2011) was a Russian writer. Ball was best known for his prolific work in children's literature.
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Nikolai Aseev Nikolai Nikolaievich Aseev (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Асе́ев ; ] ; July 10, 1889 - July 16, 1963) was a Russian poet.