Russian Writer Grigory Bakllanov Dies in Moscow

[Alexandra Popoff]

Dear colleagues:

Russian writer, Grigory Baklanov, died on December 23 in Moscow. 
Baklanov's novels told about his generation, wiped out by the Second 
World War. In the 1960s, he was among the first to depict Stalin's 
purges in the Red Army (July 1941). His other novels include Forever 
Nineteen, The Moment Between the Past and the Future, An Inch of Land 
(The Foothold), and South of the Main Offensive. During the Mikhail 
Gorbachev reforms Baklanov played a prominent role as the editor of 
Znamya, a leading literary journal and published previously banned works 
by Bulgakov, Zamyatin, Tvardovsky, etc.

See more on Baklanov:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/12/23/arts/AP-EU-Russia-Obit-Baklanov.html

Alexandra Popoff
Author

 



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