Viktor Nekrasov
Viktor Platonovich Nekrasov | |
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Native name | Виктор Платонович Некрасов |
Born | Kyiv | June 17, 1911
Died | September 3, 1987 Paris | (aged 76)
Notable awards | USSR State Prize |
Viktor Platonovich Nekrasov (
Biography
Nekrasov was born in
After
After Khruschev's ouster in October 1964, Nekrasov joined other Soviet intellectuals in protesting what he saw as the new government's gradual restoration of Stalinism. He signed numerous open letters protesting government policies in 1966-1973 and was expelled from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1973. In 1974 he emigrated to France, where he became an associate editor of the emigre magazine Kontinent. While in exile, he wrote an autobiography, Newspaper of a Peculiar One (1976), and a novel, Those of the Front (1978). In 1979, after he had made some ironic marks on Brezhnev's trilogy, Nekrasov's Soviet citizenship was revoked.[2] He died in Paris and was buried in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery, in the southern suburbs of Paris.
Works in English translation
- Kira Georgievna. Tr. Walter N. Vickery, New York, Pantheon Books [1962], 183p.
- Front-line Stalingrad. Tr. David Floyd, London, Harvill Press, [1962], 320 p.
- The Perch. Tr. Vic Shneerson, in The Third Flare: Three War Stories, Moscow, Foreign Languages Pub. House, [1963], 229p.
- Both Sides of the Ocean; a Russian Writer's Travels in Italy and the United States, New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1964], xv, 191p.
- Postscripts, Tr. Michael G. Falchikov; Quartet Books/Namara Group, London, [1991], 201p.
Further reading
- Phillips, William; Shragin, Boris; Aleshkovsky, Yuz; Kott, Jan; Siniavski, Andrei; Aksyonov, Vassily; Litvinov, Pavel; Dovlatov, Sergei; Nekrassov, Viktor; Etkind, Efim; Voinovich, Vladimir; Kohak, Erazim; Loebl, Eugen (Winter 1984). "Writers in exile III: a conference of Soviet and East European dissidents". The Partisan Review. 51 (1): 11–44.
References
- ^ Falchikov, Michael (2005). "Viktor Platonovich Nekrasov (17 June 1911-3 September 1987)". Dictionary of Literary Biography. Russian Prose Writers After World War II, edited by Christine Rydel, Vol. 302: 187–193 – via Gale Literature.
- ^ (in Russian)
Sources
- "Nekrasov, Viktor" in Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Vol. 3, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1993.
- De Boer, S. P.; Driessen, Evert; Verhaar, Hendrik (1982). "Nekrasov, Viktor Platonovič". Biographical dictionary of dissidents in the Soviet Union: 1956–1975. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. pp. 391–392. ISBN 9024725380.
External links
- A comprehensive multimedia site, in Russian, offering biographical information, texts of Nekrasov's works, audio of his Radio Liberty broadcasts, his artwork, photographs, and video, as well as information on his network of friends: Виктор Некрасов. Сайт памяти писателя.
- Viktor Nekrasov Biography