Anatoly Gladilin


Anatoly Tikhonovich Gladilin was a Soviet and Russian writer and poet who defected from the Soviet Union in 1976 and subsequently lived in Paris.

Biography

In the 1960s, he was one of the most famous and promising young Russian authors, along with Vasily Aksyonov. In Paris, Gladilin worked for the Radio Liberty and the Deutsche Welle. Among his published works in the West was a novel, FSSR: The French Soviet Socialist Republic — a tale of a Communist coup in France.
Gladilin was awarded the Medal of Pushkin in 2012.

Selected works