Vladimir Voinovich
| Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinovich | |
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| Native name | Владимир Николаевич Войнович |
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26 September 1932 Stalinabad, Tajik SSR, USSR |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Period | 1960–present |
| Notable works |
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (1969–2007) Moscow 2042 (1986) Monumental Propaganda (2000) |
| Notable awards | Andrei Sakharov Prize For Writer's Civic Courage, State Prize of the Russian Federation |
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Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinovich, also spelled Voynovich (Russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Войно́вич, born 26 September 1932, Stalinabad), is a Russian-speaking (formerly Soviet) writer and a dissident. He is a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Department of Language and Literature.
Voinovich was born in Stalinabad, Tajik SSR, Soviet Union. Voinovich's father was a journalist of Serbian descent, his mother a professor of mathematics of Jewish descent.
Between 1951 and 1955, Voinovich did peacetime service in the Soviet Army.
Voinovich is famous for his satirical fiction but also for writing some poetry. While working for Moscow radio in the early 1960s, he produced the lyrics for the cosmonauts' anthem, Fourteen Minutes To Lift-off ("14 минут до старта").
At the outset of the Brezhnev stagnation period, Voinovich's writings stopped being published in the USSR, but became very popular in samizdat and in the West. In 1974, because of his writing and his participation in the human rights movement, Voinovich was excluded from the Soviet Writers' Union. His telephone line was cut off in 1976 and he and his family were forced to emigrate in 1980. He settled in Munich, West Germany and worked for Radio Liberty.
Voinovich helped publish Vasily Grossman's famous novel Life and Fate by smuggling photo films secretly taken by Andrei Sakharov.
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