Anatoly Tikhonovich Gladilin (; 21 August 1935 — 24 October 2018) was a Soviet and Russian writer and poet who defected from the Soviet Union in 1976 and subsequently lived in Paris. Biography In the 1960s, he was one of the most famous and promising young Russian authors, along with Vasily Aksyonov. 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. Gladilin was awarded the Medal of Pushkin in 2012. Selected works Brigantine Raises Sails, Moscow: Soviet Writer, 1959. Going Ahead, Moscow: Young Guard, 1962. Forecast for Tomorrow, Frankfurt: Possev, 1972. Dreams of the Schlusselburg Fortress, Moscow: Politizdat, 1974. The Making and Unmaking of a Soviet Writer: My Story of the Young Prose of the Sixties and After, Ardis, 1979. Moscow Racetrack: A Novel of Espionage at the Track (trans. J.G. Tucker and R. P. Schoenberg), Ardis, 1990. Rogues, Welcome to Paris!, Moscow: Zakharov, 2007. References External links Anatoly Gladilin 1935 births 2018 deaths Russian male novelists Russian male poets Soviet novelists Soviet male writers 20th-century Russian male writers Soviet dissidents Recipients of the Medal of Pushkin Soviet emigrants to France 20th-century Russian poets 20th-century Russian novelists 21st-century Russian poets 21st-century Russian novelists 21st-century male writers Writers from Moscow