Kern, Gary.

Veniamin Kaverin (born Veniamin Aleksandrovich Zil'bur, 1902-1989) was a Russian author of novels including Khudozhnik Neizvesten (Artist Unknown) and Dva Kapitana (Two Captains). In the early 1920s he was a member of the Serapion Brotherhood in Petrograd (St. Petersburg), a group that advocated preservation of the ideals of the Russian literary intellegentsia. Kaverin played a prominent role in the liberalization of Soviet literary life, balancing the art of his writing with the demands of restrictive ideology.

Gary Kern is a writer and translator of poetry and prose of Veniamin Kaverin and others.

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