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Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov (Russian: Варла́м Ти́хонович Шала́мов; 18 June 1907 – 17 January 1982), baptized as Varlaam, was a Russian writer, journalist, poet and Gulag survivor.
Throughout his own works, Shalamov consistently invokes his literary precursors and refers not only to Dostoevsky, as well as tsarist-time revolutionaries such as Vera Figner and Nikolai Morozov, but also to Avvakum, whose trace he follows in one of his most memorable poems, “Avvakum in Pustozersk”.
Apr 22, 2024 · Varlam Shalamov (born June 18 [July 1, New Style], 1907, Vologda, Russia—died Jan. 17, 1982, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) was a Russian writer best known for a series of short stories about imprisonment in Soviet labour camps.
Jun 12, 2018 · For fifteen years the writer Varlam Shalamov was imprisoned in the Gulag for participating in “counter-revolutionary Trotskyist activities.” He endured six of those years enslaved in the gold mines of Kolyma, one of the coldest and most hostile places on earth.
Mar 19, 2015 · Between 1954 and 1973, Shalamov wrote 147 stories about Russian prisons, transit camps, the mines of Kolyma, life in the camp hospitals, and the troubled experience of returning home. It is ...
Kolyma Tales or Kolyma Stories (Russian: Колымские рассказы, Kolymskiye rasskazy) is the name given to six collections of short stories by Russian author Varlam Shalamov, about labour camp life in the Soviet Union. Most stories are documentaries and reflect the personal experience by Shalamov.
Jan 17, 2020 · The son of a priest and a teacher, Varlam Shalamov saw himself as a writer from childhood. A Trotskyist, first arrested in 1929, he spent 20 of the next 25 years in Kolyma, a vast labour camp...
