Prose writer, poet and screenwriter Yuz Aleshkovsky died at the age of 93. This was announced on March 21 by media manager and poet Demyan Kudryavtsev.
“A great, sophisticated writer, folk poet, and a special kind of person who lived a very long life brightly and meaningfully. Blessed be his memory,” he wrote on social media.
Yuz Aleshkovsky was born on September 21, 1929 in Krasnoyarsk. He went to school in Moscow, but during the Great Patriotic War he and his family were evacuated to Omsk. Since 1979, the writer has lived in the United States.
Aleshkovsky is the author of novels, stories, songs and scripts for children’s and youth films. His most famous works are: children’s stories “Two tickets for the train”, “Black-brown fox”, “Shoo, Two briefcases and a whole week”, “Shoo and I in the Crimea”; story “Nikolai Nikolaevich”.
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