Yuz Aleshkovsky

Yuz Aleshkovsky

Known for: Writing
Biography: 1929-09-21
Deathday: 2022-03-21 (92 years old)

Biography

Iosif Efimovich Aleshkovsky (Russian: Ио́сиф Ефи́мович Алешко́вский), known as Yuz Aleshkovsky (Russian: Юз Алешко́вский) (September 21, 1929 – March 21, 2022) was a modern Russian writer, poet, screenwriter, and performer of his own songs. Yuz Aleshkovsky was born in Krasnoyarsk in 1929, when his Russian Jewish family resided there briefly for his father's business. Three months later his family returned to Moscow. His high school studies were interrupted due to his family's evacuation during the Second World War.In 1949 Aleshkovsky was drafted into the Soviet Navy, but because of breaking the disciplinary code, he had to serve four years in jail (1950–1953). After serving the term, Aleshkovsky moved back to Moscow and began writing books for children.Aleshkovsky also wrote songs and performed them. Some, especially "Товарищ Сталин, вы большой ученый" (Comrade Stalin, you are a great scholar) and "Окурочек" (Little cigarette butt), became extremely popular in the Soviet Union and are considered folk classics.Aleshkovsky also wrote screenplays for movies and television and was accepted into the Union of Soviet Writers.

From the very beginning of his career, Aleshkovsky did not compromise his writing to conform to official Soviet doctrine, and for this reason his novellas and novels were available only in samizdat. Some of his songs were included in the subversive self-published almanac Metropol (1979).

With no hope of being published officially in the Soviet Union, Aleshkovsky emigrated to the West in 1979 and waited for his entry visa to the United States in France and Austria. The following year, he was invited to the United States by Wesleyan University and settled in Middletown, Connecticut, where he lived and served as a Visiting Russian Emigre Writer in Wesleyan's Russian Department. In 1987 he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship for fiction. In 2002 Aleshkovsky won the Pushkin Prize.

Information

Known For
Writing

Gender
Male

Birthday
1929-09-21

Deathday
2022-03-21 (92 years old)

Birth Name
Иосиф Хаимович Алешковский

Birth Place
Krasnoyarsk, USSR, (now Russia)

Father
Q111338068

Siblings
Mark Aleshkovsky

Citizenships
Soviet Union, United States of America

Also Known As
Юз Алешковский, Иосиф Ефимович Алешковский, Иосиф Алешковский, Joseph Aleshkovsky

Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship, Pushkin Prize

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