Yevgeny Zamyatin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Russian author

Date of Birth: 20-Jan-1884

Place of Birth: Lebedyan, Russia

Date of Death: 10-Mar-1937

Profession: prose, screenwriter, writer, engineer, opinion journalism, playwright, literary critic, novelist, librettist, satirist, prosaist, opinion journalist, science fiction writer

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Yevgeny Zamyatin

  • Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (Russian: ????´??? ???´????? ????´???, IPA: [j?v'g?en??j ?'van?v??t? z?'m?æt??n]; 20 January (Julian) / 1 February (Gregorian), 1884 – 10 March 1937), sometimes anglicized as Eugene Zamyatin, was a Russian author of science fiction and political satire.
  • He is most famous for his 1921 novel We, a story set in a dystopian future police state. Despite having been a prominent Old Bolshevik, Zamyatin was deeply disturbed by the policies pursued by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) following the October Revolution.
  • In 1921, We became the first work banned by the Soviet censorship board.
  • Ultimately, Zamyatin arranged for We to be smuggled to the West for publication.
  • The subsequent outrage this sparked within the Party and the Union of Soviet Writers led directly to Zamyatin's successful request for exile from his homeland.
  • Due to his use of literature to criticize Soviet society, Zamyatin has been referred to as one of the first Soviet dissidents.

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