Yuri Olesha (1899–1960)

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1. Andrey Platonov

   Author of The Foundation Pit, The Fierce and Beautiful World, Happy Moscow

2. Victor Serge

   Author of The Case of Comrade Tulayev, Unforgiving Years

3. Robert Walser

   Author of Jakob von Gunten, Selected Stories

4. Raymond Queneau

   Author of Witch Grass, We Always Treat Women Too Well (New York Review Books Classics)

5. George Gibian

   Author of The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader

6. Andrej Bely

   Author of Petersburg

7. Mikhail Bulgakov

   Author of The Master and Margarita, Heart of a Dog

8. Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

   Author of The Golovlyov Family

9. Ivan Turgenev

   Author of Fathers and Sons, Sketches from a Hunter's Album, Spring Torrents

10. Venedikt Erofeev

    Author of Moscow Circles

11. Vladimir Nabokov

    Author of Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited, Bend Sinister, Lectures on Russian Literature

12. Fyodor Sologub

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13. Tatyana Tolstaya

    Author of The Slynx

14. Adolfo Bioy Casares

    Author of Asleep in the Sun

15. Carlo Emilio Gadda

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16. Gyula Krudy

    Author of Sunflower

17. Mikhail Lermontov

    Author of A Hero of Our Time

18. James McCourt

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19. Der Nister

    Author of The Family Mashber

20. Anton Chekhov

    Author of Ward Six and other stories, The Portable Chekhov