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Valentin Rasputin

Died in 2015

Valentin Rasputin (1937-2015), born on 15 March 1937 in the Irkutsk region of Siberia, completed his studies at Irkutsk University in 1959 and worked for youth newspapers in Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk. He published his first story in 1961 and joined the Writers' Union in 1967. A major figure of so-called village prose, he received the Soviet State Prize in 1977. He died in Moscow on 14 March 2015, the day before his seventy-eighth birthday.

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