Varlam Shalamov
Varlam Shalamov in the 1960s.
Varlam Shalamov

Varlam Shalamov

June 5 (18), 1907, Vologda - January 17, 1982, Moscow

Varlam Shalamov, son of a priest, was born in Vologda. In 1924, he moved to Moscow, where he studied law at Moscow State University from 1926 to 1928. Denounced by a fellow student and expelled from the university for “concealing his social background,” he was arrested on February 19, 1929, and sentenced to three years of hard labor for participating in an underground Trotskyite group that disseminated the so-called “Lenin’s Testament.” He spent his first prison sentence in Vishera. In 1932, Shalamov returned to Moscow and worked as a journalist. But in January, 1937, he was arrested again for “counter-revolutionary Trotskyite activity,” sentenced to five years, and sent to Kolyma.

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Kolyma Tales
Varlam Shalamov. Kolymskie rasskazy [Kolyma Tales]. With a foreword by Mikhail Geller. London: Overseas Publications Interchange, 1978

Kolyma Tales

Varlam Shalamov. Kolymskie rasskazy [Kolyma Tales]. With a foreword by Mikhail Geller. London: Overseas Publications Interchange, 1978
Resurrection of the Larch
Varlam Shalamov. Voskreshenie listvennitsy [Resurrection of the Larch]. With a foreword by Mikhail Geller. Paris: YMCA-Press, 1985.

Resurrection of the Larch

Varlam Shalamov. Voskreshenie listvennitsy [Resurrection of the Larch]. With a foreword by Mikhail Geller. Paris: YMCA-Press, 1985.
Kolyma Tales
Varlam Shalamov. Kolyma Tales. Translated from the Russian by John Glad. New York: Norton, 1980.

Kolyma Tales

Varlam Shalamov. Kolyma Tales. Translated from the Russian by John Glad. New York: Norton, 1980.
Graphite
Varlam Shalamov. Graphite. Translated from the Russian by John Glad. New York: Norton, 1981.

Graphite

Varlam Shalamov. Graphite. Translated from the Russian by John Glad. New York: Norton, 1981.
Artikel 58: Die Aufzeichungen des Häftlings Schalanow
Artikel 58: Die Aufzeichungen des Häftlings Schalanow. Tr. Gizela Drohla. Köln: Friedrich Middelhauve Verlag, 1967.

Artikel 58: Die Aufzeichungen des Häftlings Schalanow

Artikel 58: Die Aufzeichungen des Häftlings Schalanow. Tr. Gizela Drohla. Köln: Friedrich Middelhauve Verlag, 1967.
Artikel 58: ‘N Ooggetuie Verslag oor die Bannenlinge in ‘n Siberiese Strafkamp
Varlam Šalanov. Artikel 58: ‘N Ooggetuie Verslag oor die Bannenlinge in ‘n Siberiese Strafkamp. Tr. Johannes van der Merwe. Kaapstad: Tafelberg-uit-gewers, 1967.

Artikel 58: ‘N Ooggetuie Verslag oor die Bannenlinge in ‘n Siberiese Strafkamp

Varlam Šalanov. Artikel 58: ‘N Ooggetuie Verslag oor die Bannenlinge in ‘n Siberiese Strafkamp. Tr. Johannes van der Merwe. Kaapstad: Tafelberg-uit-gewers, 1967.
Artikel 58. De aantekeningen van de gevangene Schalanow
Warlam Schalanow. Artikel 58. De aantekeningen van de gevangene Schalanow. Brussels: D.A.P. Reinaert uitgaven, 1973.

Artikel 58. De aantekeningen van de gevangene Schalanow

Warlam Schalanow. Artikel 58. De aantekeningen van de gevangene Schalanow. Brussels: D.A.P. Reinaert uitgaven, 1973.
Récits de Kolyma
Varlam Chalamov. Récits de Kolyma. Tr. Olivier Simon (Jean-Jacques Marie) and Katia Kerel. Paris: Denoël, 1969.

Récits de Kolyma

Varlam Chalamov. Récits de Kolyma. Tr. Olivier Simon (Jean-Jacques Marie) and Katia Kerel. Paris: Denoël, 1969.