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Soviet Russian writer and dissident (1932–2018)

Also known as: Wladimir Nikolajewitsch Woinowitsch, Vladimir Nikolaevič Vojnovič, Vladimir Nikolajevitš Voinovitš, Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinovich, Vladimir Voynovich, Wladimir Woinowitsch

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Known works

Die denkwürdigen Abenteuer des Soldaten Iwan Tschonkin (1975)
Putem vzaimnoi perepiski =
Monumental propaganda (2004)
In plain Russian (1979)
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