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Varlam Shalamov

1907 - 1982
Varlam Shalamov

­A political prisoner for seventeen years, Varlam Shalamov committed an unfathomable act – he survived in the deadliest of Stalin’s camps and preserved an inner strength so great, it enabled him to turn the bottom of life he had hit into an art of the first order.

­A rest

­The text of the short story translated by Anna Gunin is provided by RT partner, the Cardinal Points Literary Journal.

­Someone else's bread

­The text of the short story translated by Robert Chandler & Nathan Wilkinson is provided by RT partner, the Cardinal Points Literary Journal.