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Sergei Dovlatov

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Sergei Dovlatov · Arts & Literature

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When

1941, Ufa, Russia (USSR) — 1990, New York City, USA

Where

Russia (USSR) · United States

Biography

Sergei Dovlatov is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Author

How & why

Sergei Donatovich Dovlatov was a Russian writer whose spare, ironic, autobiographical stories about Soviet life and emigration became widely loved, though most were published only after he left the USSR and settled in New York, where he co-founded the emigre newspaper Novy Amerikanets. His father was of Jewish background and his mother Armenian.

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