Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov

1907–1982

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Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov (1907–1982) was a Russian writer, journalist, poet, and Gulag survivor. He spent much of the period from 1937 to 1951 imprisoned in forced-labor camps in the Arctic region of Kolyma, in part because of his support for Leon Trotsky and his praise of the writer Ivan Bunin. In 1946, near death, he became a medical assistant while still a prisoner, a role he kept for the rest of his sentence and for two years after his release, until 1953.

Born

1907