Mikhail Veller
Mikhail Iosifovich Veller (also sometimes Weller; russian: Михаи́л Ио́сифович Ве́ллер, uk, Михайло Йосипович Веллер) (born May 20, 1948) is a Russian writer of Ukrainian Jewish extraction. He holds a dual citizenship of Russia and Estonia. Biography Veller was born in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (modern day Ukraine) in 1948. In 1972 he graduated with a degree in linguistics from Leningrad University. He worked as a children's summer camp counselor, a hunter in Taimyr, a shepherd in the Altai mountains, a logger, a journalist, a teacher, and more - around 30 professions in all. Veller's first book, a collection of short stories titled ''I Want To Be A Yard-Sweeper'', was published in Estonia in 1983, followed by ''Heart Breaker'' (1988), ''Technology of a Short Story'' (1989), and ''Rendezvous with a Celebrity'' (1990). ''A Novel of Upbringing'' and ''Adventures of Major Zvyagin'' (1991) became bestsellers, alo ...
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