Nationality American Movies Vanechka, Montana Role Novelist | Name Edward Topol | |
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Occupation Novelist, screen writer, essayist. Notable works Tomorrow in RussiaRed Square Education Azerbaijan State University of Economics Books Submarine U-137, The Russian Seven, Deadly Games, The Jewish lover, Dermo!, Red Snow, Red Square, Red Gas Similar People Friedrich Neznansky, Daniil Granin, Aleksandr Atanesyan, Yelena Nikolayeva, Sergei Shumakov | ||
Eduard Vladimirovich Topol (Russian: Эдуа́рд Влади́мирович То́поль), real name Topelberg (Russian: Топельберг) (born 8 October 1938) is a Russian novelist.
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Biography
Born in Baku, Topol spent his teenage years finishing local school in Baku and graduated from Azerbaijan State Economic University. He also did his military service in Estonia. He worked as journalist for newspapers such as Bakinskiy Rabochiy and Komsomolskaya Pravda and wrote the screenplays for seven movies, of which two were banned due to censorship under the Soviet government.
In 1978 he emigrated to USA, New York City, and lived for short periods in Boston, Toronto and Miami. He was a contributor to the "White book" of the "Anti-Zionist committee of the Soviet society", the propaganda periodical published in the USSR in the late 1970s - mid 1980s.
Personal life
He married twice and has one daughter and one son.