- Anatoly Gladilin
Anatoly Gladilin (Anatol Gladiline) is a
Russia n writer and poet who defected from the Soviet Union in 1976 and has since lived inParis .Back in the 1960s, he was one of the most famous and promising young Russian authors, along with
Vasily Aksyonov . In Paris, Gladilin worked for theRadio Liberty and theDeutsche Welle . Among his published works in the West was a novel, "FSSR: The French Soviet Socialist Republic" - a tale of aCommunist coup inFrance .Works
*"Moscow Racetrack: A Novel of Espionage at the Track" (transl. J.G. Tucker and R. P. Schoenberg). Ardis Russian Literature Series.
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