Vasily Aksyonov

1932 - 2009

Pseudonym: Ваксон Аксон, Гривадий Горпожакс

Country of citizenship: Soviet Union, Russia

Languages spoken, written or signed: Russian

Educated at: First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg

Occupation: screenwriter, poet, writer, novelist, physician, teacher

Award received: Russian Booker Prize, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎, Medal "In Commemoration of the 1000th Anniversary of Kazan"

Student of: Georgy Duboshin

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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. He became known in the West as the author of The Burn (Ожог, Ozhog, from 1975) and of Generations of Winter (Московская сага, Moskovskaya Saga, from 1992), a family saga following three generations of the Gradov family between 1925 and 1953. Source: Wikipedia (en)