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Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov (Russian: Васи́лий Па́влович Аксёнов, IPA: [vɐˈsʲilʲɪj ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ɐˈksʲɵnəf]; August 20, 1932 – July 6, 2009) was a Soviet and Russian novelist.
Vasily Aksyonov (born August 20, 1932, Kazan, Russia, U.S.S.R.—died July 6, 2009, Moscow, Russia) was a Russian novelist and short-story writer, one of the leading literary spokespeople for the generation of Soviets who reached maturity after World War II.
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Jul 8, 2009 · Vasily Aksyonov, a writer who symbolized both the cultural flowering of the period after Stalin’s death, known as Khrushchev’s Thaw, and the clampdown that followed it, died on Monday in Moscow....
Aug 19, 2009 · Vasily Aksyonov was a symbol and leader of a generation of liberal and Westward looking writers, which was characteristic of Soviet literature in the 1960s as a result of the softening of totalitarianism after Stalin’s death in 1953.
Jul 6, 2009 · Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov (Russian: Василий Павлович Аксёнов, Василий Аксёнов) was a Soviet and Russian novelist. He is known in the West as the author of The Burn (Ожог, Ozhog, from 1975) and Generations of Winter (Московская сага, Moskovskaya Saga, from 1992), a family saga depicting three generations of the Gradov family between 1925 and 1953.
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Jul 13, 2009 · Even in his late seventies, the Russian writer Vasily Aksyonov played tennis, jogged, smoked like a chimney, listened to jazz, dressed with a certain bohemian flavor, flirted with women, divided his life between sunny Biarritz and snobbish Moscow, and drove a car.
Vasily Aksyonov was born in Kazan, USSR, in 1932. He is the author of more than 20 novels, including Oranges from Morocco (1963), The Island of Crimea (1979), and The Burn (1980).
