Vasil bykov biography
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Bykov, Vasily Vladimirovich 1924-2003
(Vasilii Uladzimiravich Bykau, Vasil Bykaw)
OBITUARY NOTICE—See index for CA sketch: Born June 19, 1924, in Charaposchina, Vitebsk Oblast, USSR (now Bychki, Belarus); died of stomach cancer June 22, 2003, in Minsk, Belarus.
Vasil bykov biography
Author. Bykov was a politically controversial and popular author in the former Soviet Union whose novels often portray the grim realities of soldiers' lives during World War II. He himself served in the Soviet Army, and after he left the service he worked as a freelance writer.
Because his honest depictions of the sometimes unheroic but very human struggles of soldiers and citizens during World War II ran contrary to the grandiose fiction approved by the State, Bykov's works were censored in his homeland.
His books often went unpublished for years after they were completed, and even then long passages were stricken out by government censors. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the formation of politically inde