Boris Vasilyev (writer)

Boris Vasilyev
Born
Boris Lvovich Vasilyev

(1924-05-21)21 May 1924
Smolensk, Soviet Union
Died11 March 2013(2013-03-11) (aged 88)[1]
Moscow, Russia
OccupationWriter
Years active1958–2013
SpouseZorya Albertovna Vasilyeva
AwardsAndrei Sakharov Prize for Writer's Civic Courage

Boris Lvovich Vasilyev (Russian: Борис Львович Васильев; 21 May 1924 – 11 March 2013) was a Soviet and Russian writer and screenwriter. He is considered the last representative of the so-called lieutenant prose, a group of former low-ranking Soviet officers who dramatized their traumatic World War II experience.

  1. ^ "Russia's Soviet-era war novelist Boris Vasilyev dies aged 88: Voice of Russia". 21 May 1924. Archived from the original on 17 April 2013. Retrieved 11 March 2013.