Iurii Trifonov

David Gillespie (University of Bath)

Ed. by Neil Cornwell, University of Bristol
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.2.00: Post-1917 Writing and Culture in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1917-present.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

Born 28 Aug 1925
Died 28 Apr 1981
Activity 1947-1981

Places

Born in Russia
Active in Russia

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Story-writer

Resources

Trifonov's Works

Save to Bookshelf

Iurii (or “Yury”) Valentinovich Trifonov was the most well-known and respected writer living and working in the Soviet Union during the so-called “stagnation” period of Leonid Brezhnev's tenure as Communist Party General Secretary (1964-82), and the one who most consistently caught the eye of Western critics. His writings are remarkable, but no more so than his own biography.

Trifonov was born in Moscow on 28 August 1925, the son of Valentin Trifonov, a militant Bolshevik of Don Cossack descent who had taken part in the Revolutions of 1905 and 1917 and the Civil War, and who had helped organize the Red Army. Valentin Trifonov spent much of Iurii's childhood years abroad on diplomatic and trade missions, and sometimes he would take his young family with him (to Finland, for

Please log in to consult the article in its entirety. If you are a member (student of staff) of a subscribing institution (see List), you should be able to access the LE on campus directly (without the need to log in), and off-campus either via the institutional log in we offer, or via your institution's remote access facilities, or by creating a personal user account with your institutional email address. If you are not a member of a subscribing institution, you will need to purchase a personal subscription. For more information on how to subscribe as an individual user, please see under Individual Subcriptions.

2067 words

Citation: Gillespie, David. "Iurii Trifonov". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 July 2003 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5404, accessed 21 November 2024.]