Boris Mozhayev, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Boris Mozhayev

Soviet author

Date of Birth: 01-Jun-1923

Place of Birth: Pitelino, Russia

Date of Death: 02-Mar-1996

Profession: screenwriter, writer

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Boris Andreyevich Mozhayev (????? ????????? ??????, June 1, 1923, Pitelino village, Ryazan Governorate - March 2, 1996, Moscow) was a Soviet Russian author, dramatist, script-writer and editor, the USSR State Prize (1989) laureate, best known for his novel Zhivoy (Alive, 1966) and the two-part epic Peasant Men and Women (Muzhiki i babyi, 1972-1980).
Supported by Alexander Tvardovsky and admired by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Mozhayev experienced serious difficulties with publishing his harshly realistic, tinged with bitter humour Village prose, dealing with trials and tribulations of the Soviet peasantry in the years of collectivisation and beyond.