Background
Trifonov, Iurii was born in 1925 in Moscow. Son of V. Trifonov, who was executed in 1938.
Trifonov, Iurii was born in 1925 in Moscow. Son of V. Trifonov, who was executed in 1938.
Graduated from the Moscow Gorkii Literary Institute, 1949.
Became famous for his novel Studenty, 1950. Other books: UtolenieZhazhdy, 1963, (film, 1965). Igry VSumerkakh, 1970.
Dolgoe Proshchanie, 1971. Drugaia Zhizri, 1975. Dom Na Naberezhnoi, 1976.
Stank, 1979. Stalin Prize, 1951. His last novel Vremia i Mesto, published a few months before his death, was openly anti-Stalinist.
