Anatoly Wassiljewitsch Kuznetsov

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Anatoli Wassiljewitsch Kusnezow (Russian: Анатолий Кузнецов; * August 18, 1929 in Kiev ; † June 13, 1979 in London ) was a Russian writer who made his experiences in Kiev under the German occupation during the Second World War in the internationally acclaimed work Babi Yar : Written a documentary novel . The book first appeared - in censored form - in Russian in 1966 and was published in the literary magazine for youth Junostj in Moscow, published by the youth organization of the CPSU, Komsomol .

After the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, Kuznetsov decided to move to Great Britain during a two-week stay in London in July 1969, which was organized by the Union of Writers of the USSR . He managed to take his uncensored manuscript with him as a film. In 1970 the work was published in full in the West under the pseudonym A. Anatoli. The portion of the censored edition was indicated.

Works

  • Babi Yar: A Documentary Novel . Berlin: Volk und Welt, 1968 (translation of the Russian - censored - version, translated by Larissa Robiné)
  • Babi Yar - The Gorge of Suffering. Roman document . Translated from Russian by Irina Nowak. With an afterword by Benjamin Korn. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2001. ISBN 3-88221-295-0 (newly translated including the passages that were deleted or reformulated by the censors, all of which are now in italics)

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