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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Tikhonovich and the family name is Shalamov.
Varlam Shalamov
Shalamov in 1937
Born
(1907-06-18)18 June 1907 Vologda, Russian Empire
Died
17 January 1982(1982-01-17) (aged 74) Tushino city district, Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Occupation
Writer, journalist, poet
Alma mater
Moscow State University
Notable works
Kolyma Tales
Signature
Website
shalamov.ru/en/
Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov (Russian: Варла́м Ти́хонович Шала́мов; 18 June 1907 – 17 January 1982), baptized as Varlaam, was a Russian writer, journalist, poet and Gulag survivor. He spent much of the period from 1937 to 1951 imprisoned in forced-labor camps in the Arctic region of Kolyma, due in part to his support of Leon Trotsky and praise of writer Ivan Bunin. In 1946, near death, he became a medical assistant while still a prisoner. He remained in that role for the duration of his sentence, then for another two years after being released, until 1953.
From 1954 to 1978, he wrote a set of short stories about his experiences in the labor camps, which were collected and published in six volumes, collectively known as Kolyma Tales. These books were initially published in the West, in English translation, starting in the 1960s; they were eventually published in the original Russian, but only became officially available in the Soviet Union in 1987, in the post-glasnost era. The Kolyma Tales are considered Shalamov's masterpiece, and "the definitive chronicle" of life in the labor camps.
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and 1970s. The memoirs of Alexander Dolgun, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, VarlamShalamov and Yevgenia Ginzburg, among others, became a symbol of defiance in...
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