Writing · Novel · Writer · Short Story
Born Aug 18, 1932
Active 1962–2009 · Awards: Russian Booker Prize, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Medal "In Commemoration of the 1000th Anniversary of Kazan"
Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov was a Soviet and Russian novelist. He became known in the West as the author of The Burn and of Generations of Winter, a family saga following three generations of the Gradov family between 1925 and 1953.