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Anatoly Tikhonovich Gladilin (a=Anatoliy Tihonovich Gladilin.ru.vorb.oga; 21 August 1935 — 24 October 2018 Умер писатель и диссидент Анатолий Гладилин) was a Soviet and Russian writer who defected from the Soviet Union in 1976 and subsequently lived in Paris. Василий Аксенов – одинокий бегун на длинные дистанции
In his own words, he left the Literary Institute without finishing it, and did not know what to do next. But he unexpectedly received an invitation to Moskovskij Komsomolets to work as the head of the literature and art department5.
In the sixties, Gladilin was considered a talented and promising young Soviet writer along with Vasily Aksyonov. In 1964, he took part in writing the collective detective novel He Who Laughs, published in the newspaper “Nedelya”.
Gladilin openly opposed the trial of Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel. The story “Forecast for Tomorrow,” written in 1972, was published only by the emigrant publishing house “Posev.”
In 1976, Anatoly Gladilin was forced to emigrate from the USSR with his wife and daughter on an Israeli visa.
In Paris, Gladilin worked for the Radio Liberty and the Deutsche Welle. Among his published works in the West was a novel, FSSR: The French Soviet Socialist Republic — a tale of a Communist coup in France. Улица генералов. Попытка мемуаров.
Gladilin was awarded the Medal of Pushkin in 2012.
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