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Viktor Petrovich Astafyev also spelled Astafiev or Astaf'ev (Russian: Ви́ктор Петро́вич Аста́фьев; 1 May 1924 – 29 November 2001), was a Soviet and Russian writer, playwright and screenwriter.
Dec 3, 2001 · Viktor Astafyev, a writer who became famous for his stark novels about the Soviet Union's costly victory in the Second World War and grim narratives about prison camps and the alcoholism and...
Nov 29, 2001 · Viktor Petrovich Astafiev is one of the best representatives of Russian literature of the second half of the 20th century. Astafiev's colleague, Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsin, called him an “adamant truth-lover, one of the first to react to the moral depravity of our life.”
The Cursed and Killed (Russian: Прокляты и убиты) is a novel by Viktor Astafyev, written in the second half of the 1990s. The plot of the novel is partly based on the author's participation in the fighting in the 21st reserve rifle regiment and their crossing of the Dnieper.
Writer. Worked as an ironworker. Military service: Russian Army, World War II; served in communications troops. AWARDS, HONORS: State Prize of Russia, 1975, for The Damned and the Dead; named Hero of Socialist Labour. WRITINGS: The Crossing, 1959. Tak Khochetsia Zhit': Povesti i Rasskazy, Izd-vo Knizhnaia Palata, 1966.
Nov 30, 2001 · Viktor Astafyev, 77, a controversial Russian novelist who was at the forefront of the rural prose style that emerged in the Soviet Union in the 1970s, died Thursday at his home in the...
Apr 16, 2013 · Viktor Petrovich Astafyev (years of life 01.05.1924 - 29.11.2001) - Soviet and Russian writer, prose writer, essayist, most of whose works are made in the genre of military and village prose. Included in the galaxy of writers who have made a very large contribution to the development of national literature.
