Venedikt Yerofeyev

Venedikt Yerofeyev
Native name
Венедикт Ерофеев
BornVenedikt Vasilyevich Yerofeyev
(1938-10-24)October 24, 1938
Niva-3 settlement, suburb of Kandalaksha, Murmansk Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
DiedMay 11, 1990(1990-05-11) (aged 51)
Moscow, Soviet Union
OccupationWriter
NationalitySoviet, Russian
PeriodContemporary
Genres
  • Novel
  • prose poetry
  • satire
  • play
  • fictional diary
  • diary
Literary movement
Notable worksMoscow-Petushki
SpouseValentina Vasilevna Zimakova, Galina Pavlovna Nosova
ChildrenVenedikt Venediktovich Yerofeyev

Venedikt Vasilyevich Yerofeyev, also or Erofeyev (Russian: Венеди́кт Васи́льевич Ерофе́ев; 24 October 1938 in Niva-3 settlement, suburb of Kandalaksha – 11 May 1990 in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian writer.[1]

  1. ^ "Писатели-диссиденты: биобиблиографические статьи (начало)" [Dissident writers: bibliographic articles (beginning)]. Новое литературное обозрение [New Literary Review] (in Russian) (66). 2004.