Died writer Vladimir Voinovich
The author of the trilogy about the soldier Ivan Chonkin was 85 years old.
Moscow. July 28. INTERFAX.RU — the Writer Vladimir Voinovich passed away at the age of 85 years. Of his death announced in the social networks of his friends. According to the journalist Victor Davydov, Voinovich died of a heart attack.
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Information about the death of Voinovich was also confirmed by the writer Viktor Shenderovich.
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The writer and playwright Vladimir Voinovich was born in Stalinabad (Dushanbe) in 1932. His first works were published in the second half of 1950-ies. In the 1960s, the poem “Fourteen minutes to go” (“I believe, friends, caravans of rockets…”), became songs became the unofficial anthem of the Soviet space program. All Voinovich has written lyrics for over 40 songs. Among his other famous works are the anti-utopia “Moscow 2042”, the story “the Hat” and “Two comrades, a book about Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s “Portrait on the background of the myth,” and a novel, “Monumental propaganda”.
In the late 1960-ies Voinovich took an active part in the movement for human rights, which caused conflict with the authorities. Satirical novel Voinovich “the Life and extraordinary adventures of private Ivan Chonkin” went in samizdat, were then published abroad. After that, Voinovich was expelled from the writers ‘ Union of the USSR, in 1980, was expelled from the USSR, and in 1981 was deprived of his Soviet citizenship. In 1990 Soviet citizenship was restored writer, after he returned home.
In 2000 for the novel “Monumental propaganda” Voinovich was awarded the State prize of the Russian Federation. In 2002 he won the prize. A. D. Sakharov “For civic courage of the writer.”