Vassily Aksyonov
Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Russian Literature and Writing
Trained as a medical doctor, Vassily Aksyonov made his Soviet literary debut in 1960. Although perhaps the most popular Soviet writer of prose in the 60s and 70s, he was forced into exile in 1980. He emigrated to the United States and settled in the Washington DC area, where he continues to write and is quickly gaining popularity among American readers. The Winter's Hero was published in 1996, the final volume in English of the trilogy that began in 1994 with Generations of Winter and has received accolades worldwide. In 1999 he wrote The New Sweet Style. Other works include The Island of Crimea, The Burn, Searching for Melancholy Baby and Say Cheese. Aksyonov taught at The Johns Hopkins University and Goucher University before coming to George Mason University.
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