Writing · Writer · Novel · Script Editor
Born Aug 28, 1925
Active 1962–1981 · Awards: Stalin Prize, Order of the Badge of Honour, Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Yury Valentinovich Trifonov was a Soviet poet and writer. He was a leading representative of the so-called Soviet "Urban Prose". He was considered a close contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981.