Anatoly Gladilin

Anatoly Gladilin
Анато́лий Ти́хонович Глади́лин
Gladilin in 2011
Born(1935-08-21)21 August 1935
Died24 October 2018(2018-10-24) (aged 83)
NationalityRussian
CitizenshipSoviet
Alma materMaxim Gorky Literature Institute (didn't complete)
Occupation(s)Writer, dissident
Known forhis participation in Soviet dissidents movement and struggle against political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union
MovementSoviet nonconformism
AwardsPushkin Medal

Anatoly Tikhonovich Gladilin (Russian: Анато́лий Ти́хонович Глади́лин, IPA: [ɐnɐˈtolʲɪj ˈtʲixənəvʲɪdʑ ɡlɐˈdʲilʲɪn] ; 21 August 1935 — 24 October 2018) was a Soviet and Russian writer who defected from the Soviet Union in 1976 and subsequently lived in Paris.