Notable works Faithful Ruslan Name Georgi Vladimov | Role Writer | |
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Native name Георгий Николаевич Владимов Born Georgi Nikolayevich Volosevich
February 19, 1931
Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR ( 1931-02-19 ) Alma mater Saint Petersburg State University Notable awards Russian Booker Prize, Andrei Sakharov Prize For Writer's Civic Courage Died October 19, 2003, Frankfurt, Germany Education Saint Petersburg State University Books Faithful Ruslan, Three minutes' silence | ||
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.
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Biography
In 1977 he became the leader of the Moscow section of Amnesty International, forbidden in the USSR. In 1983, he emigrated to West Germany.
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 General Chibisov (Kobrissov) and General Vlasov, was awarded the Russian Booker Prize in 1995 and the Sakharov Prize in 2000.
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