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Felix Svetov is a Russian writer and poet. He was born in Moscow, Soviet Union, on 28 November 1927. He is best known for his works of fiction, which include the novels The White House, The Red House, and The Black House. Svetov studied at the Moscow State University and graduated in 1950. He then worked as a journalist and editor for various newspapers and magazines. In the 1960s, he began writing fiction and his first novel, The White House, was published in 1965. Svetov has won numerous awards for his writing, including the State Prize of the Russian Federation in Literature and Art in 1996 and the Order of Friendship in 2000. He is also a member of the Russian Academy of Arts. Svetov is 96 years old and has an estimated net worth of $1 million. He is currently single and lives in Moscow.

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Born 28 November 1927
Birthday 28 November
Birthplace Moscow (Soviet Union)
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2006

2006 The Special Jury Award, Prize for Human Rights at the International Human Rights Film Festival "Stalker" was named after Svetov. Russian journalist Zoya Svetova is a daughter of Svetov.

2002

Svetov died on 2 September 2002, aged 74, in Moscow due to a myocardial infarction and was buried in Moscow at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery. Sergei Chuprinin, the editor-in-chief of Znamya, said Svetov "thought first of all about making people freer".

On 7 January 2002, Svetov received gratitude from the president of Russia for his active participation in the work of the pardon commission under the president of Russia.

In 2002, Svetov's novel Chizhik-Pyzhik (reference to the original Chizhik-Pyzhik) was nominated for the Ivan Petrovich Belkin Prize [ru].

2000

Svetov was a member of the Russian PEN Club. Since 2000 he also was a member of the pardon commission under the president of Russia, but in 2001 Vladimir Putin closed the commission. Svetov said that "Putin is a typical KGB type. If the snow is falling, they will calmly tell you, the sun is shining."

1987

In 1987, Svetov and Krakhmalnikova were released and returned to Moscow as part of Gorbachev's democratic campaign to free political prisoners. In 1990, Svetov was reinstated in Union of Soviet Writers. Many of his works have been published in the West. In Russia, he was published in the magazines Frontiers, Syntax, and Nadezhda.

1985

In 1978, Svetov's novel "Open the Doors to Me" (Отверзи ми двери) was published in Paris. At that time, he and his wife were no longer published in official Soviet publications, they were subjected to pressure from the authorities. In 1982, he was expelled from Union of Soviet Writers, and, on 23 January 1985, he was arrested after a search of his apartment. He was convicted for his "defamatory" allegations that "innocent people [were] thrown into prison" in the USSR. The government perceived it as anti-Soviet propaganda.

In 1985, Svetov received the literary Dal Prize [ru] for his book An Experiment in Biography (Russian: Опыт Биографии; 1985).

1952

From 1952 to 1954 he worked as a journalist on Sakhalin Island, USSR. Then he returned to Moscow and started publishing literary critical articles and reviews in Moscow newspapers and magazines, most often in the Novy Mir literary journal. Between 1950 and 1960, Svetov published hundreds of articles and reviews, as well as four scientific papers, including the monograph Mikhail Svetov (Михаил Светов; 1967). He spoke in defence of Andrei Sinyavsky, Yuli Daniel and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. In 1974, Solzhenitsyn's collection From Under the Rocks [ru] was published in France, in which Svetov published the Russian Fates (Русские судьбы) article under the pseudonym F. Korsakov (Ф. Корсаков). Svetov was married to writer Zoya Krakhmalnikova.

1927

Felix Grigoryevich Svetov (Russian: Феликс Григорьевич Светов; 28 November 1927 – 2 September 2002) was a Russian writer, journalist, human rights activist and dissident. He received wide recognition for his novels and short stories, published exclusively in samizdat and tamizdat. He was also included in the Literary Collection of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Svetov was persecuted for his human rights activities in the USSR.

Felix Grigoryevich Fridlyand was born on 28 November 1927 in Moscow, USSR to Soviet historian Grigory Fridlyand [ru] and his wife, Nekhama (Nadezhda) Lvovna Fridlyand (Russian: Нехама (Надежда) Львовна Фридлянд). In 1937, when Felix was nine years old, his father was murdered by the Soviet authorities during the Great Purge. His mother was sentenced to eight years in a work camp in Potma, Zubovo-Polyansky District, Republic of Mordovia. In 1951, having changed his surname to Svetov, he graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University [ru; cv; sl].