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- Birth nameIosif Efimovitch Aleshkovsky
- Yuz Aleshkovsky was born on September 21, 1929 in Krasnoyarsk, USSR. He was a writer, known for Chto s toboy proiskhodit (1975), Kysh i Dvaportfelya (1974) and Avariynoye polozheniye (1973). He was married to Irina Feliksovna Aleshkovskaya and Irina Dmitrievna Nikiforova. He died on March 21, 2022 in Tampa, Florida, USA.
- SpousesIrina Feliksovna Aleshkovskaya(1976 - March 21, 2022) (his death)Irina Dmitrievna Nikiforova (divorced, 1 child)
- From the very beginning of his career, Aleshkovsky did not compromise his writing to conform to official Soviet doctrine, and for this reason his novellas and novels were available only in samizdat. Some of his songs were included in the subversive self-published almanac Metropol (1979).
- An essential element of Aleshkovsky's style is fantasy and the grotesque. His novel Ruka (The Hand) defines Soviet communist doctrine as a modern representation of absolute evil.
- With no hope of being published officially in the Soviet Union, Aleshkovsky emigrated to the West in 1979 and waited for his entry visa to the United States in France and Austria. The following year, he was invited to the United States by Wesleyan University and settled in Middletown, Connecticut, where he lived and served as a Visiting Russian Emigre Writer in Wesleyan's Russian Department.
- In 1987 he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship for fiction.
- In 2002 Aleshkovsky won the Pushkin Prize.
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