Aleksandr Tvardovsky | |
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 Tvardovsky in 1941 | |
| Born | 21 June [O.S. 8 June] 1910 Zagorye, Smolensky Uyezd, Smolensk Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 18 December 1971 (aged 61) Vatutinki, Krasnaya Pakhra, Podolsky District, Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union |
| Occupation | Poet, prose writer, magazine editor, journalist |
| Notable works | Vasili Tyorkin |
Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovsky (Russian: Александр Трифонович Твардовский, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsandr ˈtrʲifənəvʲɪtɕ tvɐrˈdofskʲɪj]; 21 June [O.S. 8 June] 1910 – 18 December 1971) was a Soviet poet and writer and chief editor of Novy Mir literary magazine from 1950 to 1954 and 1958 to 1970. During his editorship, the magazine published One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He is best known for his epic poem Vasili Tyorkin.