Eduard Samuilowitsch Kuznetsov
Eduard Samuilowitsch Kuznetsov ( Russian Эдуард Самуилович Кузнецов ; * 1939 in Moscow ) is a former Soviet dissident and is now a human rights activist and writer.
From 1946 to 1956 he attended school and then worked as a lathe operator in a factory. After completing military service, he studied philosophy at Moscow State University .
In 1961 Kuznetsov was arrested for the first time by the KGB and sentenced to seven years in Soviet prisons for openly giving political speeches in poetry readings in Moscow and for publishing samizdat .
After his release, he initially received a residence permit for Strunino in Vladimir Oblast . In January 1970 Kuznetsov moved to live with his wife in Riga , where an invitation to Israel finally prompted him to prepare for emigration. Problems with government offices and the application to leave the country meant that in May 1970 he and several others tried to hijack a plane for departure. The attempt failed and Kuznetsov was convicted of high treason , which was punishable by death . However, after appeals and international protests, his sentence was reduced to 15 years in prison.
In 1979, Kuznetsov and four other dissidents were exchanged for two Soviet spies imprisoned in the United States. Kuznetsov then migrated to Israel . From 1983 to 1990 he was head of the news department of Radio Liberty . In 1990 he became editor-in-chief of the Israeli newspaper Вести ("The News"), the most popular Russian-language newspaper outside Russia. He held this position until 1999.
Kuznetsov is a member of the PEN Writers' Association. His writings have been widely distributed in the European, US and Israeli media. He is the author of three short stories: Camp Diary , Marathon in Mordovia (both he wrote secretly in the camp and smuggled them out) and Russian Romance , all of which have been translated into many different languages. In 1974, Lagertagebuch won the Gulliver Prize in France for best book written by a foreign author.
Works
- Storage diary . Records from the Archipelago of Horror. Munich 1974, ISBN 3-471-77933-7 .
- Marathon in Mordovia . Camp sketches. Frankfurt / M, Berlin, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-548-20364-7 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Eduard Samuilowitsch Kuznetsov in the catalog of the German National Library
- Eduard Kuznetsov's biography
supporting documents
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kuznetsov, Eduard Samuilowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Кузнецов, Эдуард Самуилович |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet dissident, human rights activist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |