Yuli Daniel
| Yuli Markovich Daniel | |
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The bookcover of The Letters from Prison
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| Native name | Юлий Маркович Даниэль |
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November 15, 1925 Moscow, Russian SFSR |
| Died | December 30, 1988 (aged 63) Moscow, Russian SFSR |
| Pen name | Nikolay Arzhak, Yu. Petrov |
| Nationality | Soviet |
| Spouse | Larisa Bogoraz, Irina Uvarova |
| Children | Alexander Daniel |
Yuli Markovich Daniel (Russian: Ю́лий Ма́ркович Даниэ́ль; IPA: [ˈjʉlʲɪj ˈmarkəvʲɪtɕ dənʲɪˈelʲ]; 15 November 1925 — 30 December 1988) was a Soviet dissident writer, poet, translator, and political prisoner. He frequently wrote under the pseudonyms Nikolay Arzhak (Russian: Никола́й Аржа́к; IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɐrˈʐak]) and Yu. Petrov (Russian: Ю. Петро́в; IPA: [ˈju pʲɪˈtrof]).
Yuli Daniel was born in Moscow, the son of the Yiddish playwright M. Daniel (Mark Meyerovich, Russian: Марк Наумович Меерович). In 1942, during World War II, Yuli Daniel lied about his age and volunteered to serve on the 2nd Ukrainian and the 3rd Belorussian fronts. In 1944 he was critically wounded in his legs and was demobilized.
In 1950, Daniel graduated from Moscow Pedagogical Institute, and went to work as a schoolteacher in Kaluga and Moscow. He also published translations of verse from a variety of languages, and, like his friend Andrei Sinyavsky, wrote topical stories and novellas ("Moscow Speaking") and smuggled them to France to be published under pseudonyms (see samizdat). Daniel married Larisa Bogoraz, who later also became a famous dissident.
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