Vassily Aksyonov
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- Author: Vassily Aksyonov
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Vassily Aksyonov (uhk-SYUH-nuhv) was primarily a novelist, but he also worked in many other genres. As a young Soviet writer, he produced short stories in the 1960’s that were enormously popular among Russian readers. He was also the author of numerous Russian film scripts and several plays, of which the best is Tsaplya (pb. 1979; The Heron, 1987). Children’s books and a fictionalized biography, Lyubov k elektrichestvu (1971; love for electricity), are also found in his oeuvre. His travel writings, especially Kruglye sutki:...
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