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ABOUT
Known best for his novel-turned-screenplay, The Red Tent, he also published such short and long fiction works as Arise and Walk and Island of Love.He and forty-one other Russian intellectuals reacted to the Russian Constitutional Crisis of 1993 by signing the famous "Letter of Forty-Two."His book (and screenplay) The Red Tent was inspired by explorer Umberto Nobile's late 1920s North Pole expedition.
BEFORE FAMEOne of his earliest publications was a 1959 short story collection titled Such a Simple Thing and Other Stories.
PERSONAL LIFEHis biological father, a Russian counter-revolutionary, was killed shortly before his birth; he was raised in the Jewish faith by his mother and his stepfather, Mark Leventhal.
FUN FACTSScreenwriter Yuri Nagibin were born on Saturday, in a leap year, birthstone is Diamond, the seaon was Spring in the Chinese year of Monkey, it is 92 days until Yuri Nagibin next birthday.
