Georgi Vladimov
Georgi Nikolayevich Vladimov | |
|---|---|
Ukrainian SSR | |
| Died | October 19, 2003 (aged 72) Frankfurt, Germany |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg State University |
| Notable works | Faithful Ruslan |
| Notable awards | Russian Booker Prize, Andrei Sakharov Prize for Writer's Civic Courage |
Georgi Nikolayevich Vladimov (Russian: Гео́ргий Никола́евич Влади́мов; real family name Volosevich, Russian: Волосевич; 19 February 1931, Kharkiv – 19 October 2003, Frankfurt) was a Russian dissident writer.
Biography
In 1977 he became the leader of the
USSR. In 1983, he emigrated to West Germany.[1]
Vladimov's most famous novel is Faithful Ruslan, the tale of a guard dog in a Soviet Gulag, told from the dog's perspective. It circulated in the Soviet Union as a samizdat publication, before being published in West Germany in 1975.
His novel The General and His Army, on
Sakharov Prize
in 2000.
Works
- The Great Ore (Большая руда, 1961)
- Three Minutes of Silence (Три минуты молчания, 1969)
- Faithful Ruslan (Верный Руслан, 1975)
- The Sixth Soldier, 1981
- Pay No Attention, Maestro (Не обращайте внимания, маэстро, 1983)
- The General and His Army (Генерал и его армия, 1994)
References
- ^ McMillin, Arnold (November 11, 2003). "Obituary: Georgi Vladimov". The Guardian. Retrieved August 6, 2015.