Writing · Novel · Writer
Born Sep 26, 1932 · Stalinabad, Tajik SSR, USSR
Active 1974–2018 · Awards: Dr. Friedrich Joseph Haass-Preis, Triumph, Andrei Sakharov Prize For Writer's Civic Courage, State Prize of the Russian Federation, Lev Kopelev Prize
Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinovich was a Russian writer and former Soviet dissident, and the "first genuine comic writer" produced by the Soviet system.