Valentin Rasputin
1937
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2015
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
genre: Village Prose, novel, short story, essay
country of citizenship: Soviet Union, Russia
native language: Russian
languages spoken, written or signed: Russian
educated at: Irkutsk State University
occupation: writer, journalist, opinion journalist, public figure, politician
Valentin Grigoryevich Rasputin (; Russian: Валентин Григорьевич Распутин; 15 March 1937 – 14 March 2015) was a Soviet and Russian writer. He was born and lived much of his life in the Irkutsk Oblast in Eastern Siberia. Rasputin's works depict rootless urban characters and the fight for survival of centuries-old traditional rural ways of life, addressing complex questions of ethics and spiritual revival. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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