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Boris Andreyevich Mozhayev was a Soviet Russian author, dramatist, script-writer and editor, the USSR State Prize (1989) laureate, best known for his novel Zhivoy and the two-part epic Peasant Men and Women. Supported by Alexander Tvardovsky and admired by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Mozhayev experienced serious difficulties with publishing his harshly realistic, tinged with bitter humour Village prose, dealing with trials and tribulations of the Soviet peasantry in the years of collectivisation and beyond.
Birth Name
Boris Andreyevich Mozhayev
Born
Friday, 01 June 1923
Died
Saturday, 02 March 1996