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Russian writer (1905–1942)
Also known as: Daniil Charms, Daniil Harms, Daniil Ivanovich Kharms, Daniil Ivánovich Yuvachev, Daniil Ivánovich Yuvachov, Daniil Iwanowitsch Juwatschow
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- The man with the black coat
- The story of a boy named Will, who went sledding down the hill
- Russia's lost literature of the absurd (1974)
- It happened like this
- Polnoe sobranie sochineniĭ