Vasily Shukshin

Vasily Shukshin
Born(1929-07-25)25 July 1929
Srostki, Biysky District, Siberian Krai, RSFSR, USSR
Died2 October 1974(1974-10-02) (aged 45)
On board the ship Dunai, on the Volga river near Kletskaya, Volgograd Oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Notable workThe Red Snowball Tree (1974)

Vasily Makarovich Shukshin (Russian: Василий Макарович Шукшин; 25 July 1929 – 2 October 1974) was a Soviet Russian writer,[1] actor, screenwriter and film director from the Altai region who specialized in rural themes.[2][3][4] A prominent member of the Village Prose movement, he began writing short stories in his early teenage years and later transition to acting by his late 20s.

  1. ^ Э. Кузьмина. Прочная основа // «Новый мир», 1964, № 4, с.244-246.
  2. ^ Peter Rollberg (2016). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman / Littlefield. pp. 682–683. ISBN 978-1442268425.
  3. ^ Neil Cornwell, Reference Guide to Russian Literature Routledge, 2013, ISBN 9781134260706, 734 p.
  4. ^ Mauricio Borrero, Russia: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present Infobase Publishing, 2009, ISBN 9780816074754, 318 p.