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In the USA, writer and performer Yuz Aleshkovsky died at the age of 93.
He died in Tampa, where he lived in recent years.
The cause of death has not yet been specified.
Aleshkovsky is a Russian prose writer, poet and screenwriter, songwriter. He was born in 1929 in Krasnoyarsk. Since 1979 he has lived in the USA. Aleshkovsky’s real name is Joseph Efimovich. In 2002, he was awarded the German Pushkin Prize “for the work created by the writer since the 50s, which made him one of the leading personalities of Russian literature of the 20th century.”
Aleshkovsky is known to the general public from the children’s books “Shoo, Two Briefcases and a Whole Week” (1970) and “Shoo and I in the Crimea” (1975). He also wrote scripts for children’s films Here’s My Village (1972), Shoo and Two Briefcases (1974), What’s Happening to You? (1975). In intellectual circles, he is popular as the author-performer of “camp” songs “Soviet Easter”, “Lesbian”, “Song of Stalin”, “Kurochek”. At the same time, he wrote novels and stories related to topics forbidden for Soviet literature – camp life, the falsity of the Soviet system.
Source: Rosbalt
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