Background
Sever Gansovsky was born in the family of Ella-Johanna May, a singer from Latvia.
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Sever Gansovsky was born in the family of Ella-Johanna May, a singer from Latvia.
He graduated from the evening school.
He mostly wrote short stories. In 1918 they had two children, Sever and Veronika. Felix disappeared soon after their birth, and Ella moved to Leningrad.
During Stalinist repressions in the 1930s she was arrested and shot in prison.
Sever Gansovsky worked as a cabin boy, and sailor in Murmansk, and later as an electrician in Leningrad. In 1940 he entered the Leningrad State University, but in 1941 volunteered to join the army for the Great Patriotic War.
He served as a sniper and the scout for marines. Gansovsky was seriously wounded in 1942, but survived, although his relatives got the message that he was killed in action and buried.
After demobilization he worked as a postman, teacher, and had some other jobs.
He graduated from the Leningrad State University in 1951 (Faculty of Philology). He started publishing his written works in magazines in 1950, while studying at the university. In the 1960s he switched to science fiction.
His first published work in the science fiction genre was The Guest from the Stone Age (Russian: Гость из каменного века.
1960). (Russian: Инстинкт?). Gansovsky was also famous for his illustrations, particularly to the first edition of Boris and Arkady Strugatsky"s novel Snail on the Slope.
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