Aleksandr Tvardovsky
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Soviet poet (1910–1971)
Key facts
- Born
- 21 June [ O.S. 8 June ] 1910, Zagorye , Smolensky Uyezd , Smolensk Governorate , Russian Empire
- Died
- 18 December 1971 (1971-12-18) (aged 61), Vatutinki, Krasnaya Pakhra, Podolsky District , Moscow Oblast , Soviet Union
- Occupation
- Poet, prose writer, magazine editor, journalist
- Notable works
- Vasili Tyorkin [ fr ]
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Aleksandr
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of death
- Vatutinki
- Occupation
- short story writer
- Position held
- editor-in-chief
- Political party
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Participant in
- 21st Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Field of work
- journalism
- Genre
- narrative poetry
- Movement
- socialist realism
- Conflict
- Eastern Front
- Military rank
- Lieutenant Colonel
- Image
- Tvardovsky with book.jpg
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- place of burial
- Novodevichy Cemetery
- Commons category
- Aleksandr Tvardovsky
- date of birth
- 1910-06-21
- date of death
- 1971-12-18
- member of
- USSR Union of Writers
- cause of death
- lung cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1925-00-00
- writing language
- Russian
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Encyclopedic overview
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 [fr].
Biography
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