Gaito Gazdanov

Bryan Karetnyk (University College London)

Ed. by Andrei Rogatchevski, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
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 23 Nov 1903
Died 5 Dec 1971
Activity 1922-1971

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Born in Russia
Active in Russia

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Prose writer

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Gaito (Georgy Ivanovich) Gazdanov was born in St Petersburg on 23 November (New Style, 6 December) 1903. The date marked the start of a life often subject to hardship and poverty, as well as the tumultuous political upheavals of the twentieth century. Despite the privations of émigré life, however, Gazdanov would go on to become one of the most prominent literary figures of the Russian emigration’s young generation, his career encompassing nine complete novels, almost fifty short stories and dozens of critical essays, reviews and radio broadcasts.

Born into a Russified Ossetian family, Gazdanov himself knew almost nothing of the Ossetian language or culture, yet his family – particularly that of his father, Ivan Sergeyevich Gazdanov – was a prominent one in the Caucasus:

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Citation: Karetnyk, Bryan. "Gaito Gazdanov". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 December 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13808, accessed 24 November 2024.]