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Kolyma Tales

PUBLIC LIBRARY OF INDIA https://archive.org/details/digitallibraryindia Prose in autobiographical fiction form. Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov ( Russian : Варла́м Ти́хонович Шала́мов ; June 18, 1907 – January 17, 1982), baptized as Varlaam , was a Russian writer, journalist, poet and Gulag survivor. He spent much of the period from 1937 to 1951 imprisoned in forced-labor camps in the arctic region of Kolyma , due in part to his having supported Leon Trotsky and praised the anti- Soviet writer Ivan Bunin . In 1946, near death, he became a medical assistant while still a prisoner. He remained in that role for the duration of his sentence, then for another two years after being released, until 1953. From 1954 to 1978, he wrote a set of short stories about his experiences in the labor camps, which were collected and published in six volumes, collectively known as Kolyma Tales .

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