Aleksandr Tvardovsky

1910 - 1971

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Movement: socialist realism

Genre: poetry, narrative poetry, short story

Country of citizenship: Russian Empire, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Soviet Union

Languages spoken, written or signed: Russian

Educated at: Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature, and History

Occupation: poet, writer, journalist

Award received: Stalin Prize, USSR State Prize, Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order of Lenin, Order of the Patriotic War 1st class, Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Order of the Red Star, Lenin Prize

Position held: editor-in-chief

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Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovsky ( Russian: Александр Трифонович Твардовский, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsandr ˈtrʲifənəvʲɪtɕ tvɐrˈdofskʲɪj]; 21 June [O.S. 8 June] 1910 – 18 December 1971) was a Soviet poet and writer and chief editor of Novy Mir literary magazine from 1950 to 1954 and 1958 to 1970. During his editorship, the magazine published One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He is best known for his epic poem Vasili Tyorkin. Source: Wikipedia (en)