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Veniamin Aleksandrovich Kaverin
Вениамин Каверин
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6 April 1902 - 2 May 1989
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His real name is Veniamin Alexandrovich Zilber. Born in Pskov in the family of a musician. He graduated from the gymnasium in Moscow, in 1920 moved to Petrograd, graduated from the Institute of Foreign Languages (Arabistics Department), in 1929 defended his thesis on Russian philology. In literature, Kaverin debuted in the early 20s - in the collections of the group "Serapionov brothers". In 1923, a collection of stories by Kaverin “Master and apprentice” was published, in 1925 – the novel “The
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His real name is Veniamin Alexandrovich Zilber.
Born in Pskov in the family of a musician. He graduated from the gymnasium in Moscow, in 1920 moved to Petrograd, graduated from the Institute of Foreign Languages (Arabistics Department), in 1929 defended his thesis on Russian philology.
In literature, Kaverin debuted in the early 20s - in the collections of the group "Serapionov brothers". In 1923, a collection of stories by Kaverin “Master and apprentice” was published, in 1925 – the novel “The End of Khazy”, and in 1931 – the novel “The Artist is Unknown”.
During the war, Kaverin worked as a correspondent of the newspaper Izvestia. In 1944, the last part of the most famous of the works of the writer was published - the novel "Two Captains"; in the same year this novel was awarded the Stalin Prize.
Of Kaverin's later works, it is necessary to note the novels "Before the Mirror" (1971) and "Verlioka" (1982), as well as the autobiographical books "In the Old House" (1971) and "Lighted Windows" (1976).
Kaverin always remained an opponent of "official Soviet writing". He sought the literary rehabilitation of Tynyanov and Bulgakov, signed an appeal in defense of Sinyavsky and Daniel, supported Solzhenitsyn. Kaverin became a member of the board of the Writers' Union only in 1986, just three years before his death.