Background
Kharms, Daniil was born in 1905 in Petersburg.
Kharms, Daniil was born in 1905 in Petersburg.
Prominent member of the OBERIU literary group in the 1920s. Wrote only works for children in the 1930s. Arrested in August 1941.
Interest in his modernist works revived in the 1960s. Now officially recognized in the USSR. His Sobranie Sochinenii was published in Germany, 1978-1980. A full-length feature film on his fate by the Yugoslav director Pesic was shown at the Cannes Film Festival, 1988.