Venedikt Yerofeyev
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Key facts
- Native name
- Венедикт Ерофеев
- Born
- Venedikt Vasilyevich Yerofeyev , ( 1938-10-24 ) October 24, 1938, Niva-3 settlement , suburb of Kandalaksha , Murmansk Oblast , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
- Died
- May 11, 1990 (1990-05-11) (aged 51), Moscow , Soviet Union
- Occupation
- Writer
- Nationality
- Soviet, Russian
- Period
- Contemporary
- Genres
- Novel prose poetry satire play fictional diary diary
- Literary movement
- Soviet nonconformism Surrealism Russian postmodernism
- Notable works
- Moscow-Petushki
- Spouse
- Valentina Vasilevna Zimakova, Galina Pavlovna Nosova
- Children
- Venedikt Venediktovich Yerofeyev
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Yerofeyev
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Kandalaksha
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Notable work
- Moscow-Petushki
- Field of work
- literature
- Genre
- satire
- Movement
- modernism
- Image
- Могила писателя Венедикта Ерофеева (cropped).JPG
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- place of burial
- Kuntsevo Cemetery
- date of death
- 1990-05-11
- date of birth
- 1938-10-26
- cause of death
- laryngeal cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Venedict Yerofeyev
- writing language
- Russian
- name in native language
- Венедикт Ерофеев
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- Thomas J. Sargent
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Encyclopedic overview
Venedikt Vasilyevich Yerofeyev, also Benedict Erofeev or Erofeyev (Russian: Венеди́кт Васи́льевич Ерофе́ев; 24 October 1938 in Niva-3 settlement, suburb of Kandalaksha – 11 May 1990 in Moscow) was a Russian writer and Soviet dissident.
Biography
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