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Andrei Platonov (Russian:
Андрей
Плато́нов)
(1899-1951) was a Russian writer. His famous works include Chevengur, a dystopian story.
The son of a metalworker and the eldest of ten children, Platonov was born in a village near the town of Voronezh. He began publishing stories and poems in the early 1920s, while working as a land reclamation expert in central Russia. Here he witnessed the disease and upheaval caused by forced collectivization.
Politically charged, his writing was in the 1930s suppressed by the Soviet authorities. During World War II he worked as a war correspondent. in 1951, he died relatively unknown of tuberculosis, though his influence on later Russian writers has been considerable.
Because of his political writings, perceived anti-totalitarian stance, and early death of tuberculosis, some English-speaking commentators have called him "the Russian George Orwell".
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