Eduard Kuznetsov

Eduard Samuilowitsch Kuznetsov (Russian Эдуард Самуилович Кузнецов; * 1939 in Moscow) was a Soviet dissident and now a human rights activist and writer.

1946 to 1956 he attended the school and then worked as a lathe operator in a factory. After completing military service, he studied philosophy at Moscow State University.

1961 Kuznetsov was first arrested by the KGB and sentenced to seven years in Soviet prisons, as he held open in Moscow political speeches in poetry readings and samizdat publications.

1979 against two Soviet spies who were imprisoned in the U.S., replaced Kuznetsov and four other dissidents. Kuznetsov then migrated to Israel. From 1983 to 1990 he was head of the news department of Radio Liberty. In 1990 he became editor of the Israeli newspaper Вести ( " news " ), the most popular Russian-language newspaper outside Russia. He retained this position until 1999.

Kuznetsov is a member of PEN Writers Association. His writings have been widely used in European, U.S. and Israeli media. He is the author of three novels: Camp Diary, Marathon in Mordovia (both he wrote secretly in the camp and smuggled them out ) and Russian romance, all of which were translated into many different languages. In 1974 the camp diary Gulliver Prize in France as the best book written by a foreign author.

Works

• Bearing journal. Notes from the archipelago of horror. Munich 1974, ISBN 3-471-77933-7.
• Marathon in Mordovia. Bearing sketches. Frankfurt / M, Berlin, Vienna, 1983, ISBN 3-548-20364-7.