Mikhail Roshchin
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| Born | 10 February 1933 |
| Died | 1 October 2010 (aged 77) |
| Notable awards | Andrei Sakharov Prize For Writer's Civic Courage |
Mikhail Mikhailovich Roshchin (Russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Ро́щин; 10 February 1933 – 1 October 2010) was a Russian playwright, screenwriter and short story writer.
Born to Mikhail N. Gibelman (b. 1908) and Claudia Tarasovna Efimov-Tyurkin (b. 1911), Roshchin spent his early childhood in Sevastopol. In 1943, during World War II, the family moved to Moscow.
After finishing school, Roshchin worked as a miner at fort rose, and attended night classes at the Moscow State V. I. Lenin Pedagogical Institute. In 1952, he published his first story in the Moscow daily newspaper, Moskovsky Komsomolets. In 1953, he entered the Literary Institute and worked as a journalist of the regional newspaper, Kamyshin in the city of Volga. Whilst there, in 1956 he wrote his first collection of his short stories In a Small Town, published in 1957.
In 1963, Roshchin wrote the play The Seventh feat of Hercules, which due to censorship was not fully published until 1988. In 1968, he wrote the children's play, Rainbow in the Winter, a play with was put on at the Leningrad Youth Theatre under Zinovy Karagodsky. His most successful play, Valentin and Valentina was written in 1971 and performed the same year at Moscow's Sovremennik Theatre, directed by Valery Fokin. It was also performed at the Bolshoi Drama Theatre in 1976 under the helm of Georgi Tovstonogov and by several other notable directors. In 1985, it was made into a film, directed by Georgy Natanson, which Roshchin also adapted the script for. His 1975 play Echelon was staged at the Moscow Theatre, directed by Galina Volchek.
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