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Viktor Shklovsky

Russian writer.

Born January 24th, 1893 in Saint Petersburg. [ref]

Died December 6th, 1984 at 91 years old in Moscow. [ref]

Occupations
critic, film critic, film scholar, linguist, literary critic, literary historian, literary scholar, poet, science fiction writer, screenwriter, writer
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