Anatoly Tikhonovich Gladilin ( rus, Анато́лий Ти́хонович Глади́лин, p=ɐnɐˈtolʲɪj ˈtʲixənəvʲɪdʑ ɡlɐˈdʲilʲɪn, a=Anatoliy Tihonovich Gladilin.ru.vorb.oga; 21 August 1935 — 24 October 2018) was a Soviet and Russian writer and poet who defected from the Soviet Union in 1976 and subsequently lived in

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Biography

In the 1960s, he was one of the most famous and promising young Russian authors, along with

Vasily Aksyonov Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov ( rus, Васи́лий Па́влович Аксёнов, p=vɐˈsʲilʲɪj ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ɐˈksʲɵnəf; August 20, 1932 – July 6, 2009) was a Soviet and Russian novelist. He became known in the West as the autho ...

. In Paris, Gladilin worked for the

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and the

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. Among his published works in the West was a novel, ''FSSR: The French Soviet Socialist Republic'' — a tale of a

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coup in France. Gladilin was awarded the

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in 2012.

Selected works

* ''Brigantine Raises Sails'', Moscow: Soviet Writer, 1959. * ''Going Ahead'', Moscow: Young Guard, 1962. * ''Forecast for Tomorrow'', Frankfurt: Possev, 1972. * ''Dreams of the Schlusselburg Fortress'', Moscow: Politizdat, 1974. *''The Making and Unmaking of a Soviet Writer: My Story of the Young Prose of the Sixties and After'', Ardis, 1979. *''Moscow Racetrack: A Novel of Espionage at the Track'' (trans. J.G. Tucker and R. P. Schoenberg), Ardis, 1990. * ''Rogues, Welcome to Paris!'', Moscow: Zakharov, 2007.Россия станет для европейцев землёй обетованной
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Anatoly Gladilin
1935 births 2018 deaths Russian male novelists Russian male poets Soviet novelists Soviet male writers 20th-century Russian male writers Soviet dissidents Recipients of the Medal of Pushkin Soviet emigrants to France 20th-century Russian poets 20th-century Russian novelists 21st-century Russian poets 21st-century Russian novelists 21st-century male writers Writers from Moscow {{Russia-writer-stub