Yury Trifonov

1925 - 1981

country of citizenship: Soviet Union

languages spoken, written or signed: Russian

educated at: Maxim Gorky Literature Institute, Moscow school number 19

award received: Stalin Prize, Order of the Badge of Honour, Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"

Yury Valentinovich Trifonov (Russian: Юрий Валентинович Трифонов; 28 August 1925 – 28 March 1981) was a leading representative of the so-called Soviet "Urban Prose". He was considered a close contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981. Source: Wikipedia (en)