1929. Fazil Iskander was born

85 years ago, on March 6, 1929, a wonderful satirist Fazil Iskander, a laureate of many literary awards, became famous for the epic “Sandro from Chegem”, the stories “The Constellation of the Kitliki”, “Rabbit and Bad” and numerous stories, was born.

He says: “I am unconditionally a Russian writer, who sung a lot of Abkhazia. In Abkhaz, I, unfortunately, did not write anything. The choice of Russian culture was unequivocal for me. ” In the USSR, its texts were released in the USSR with mercilessly cut censorship, and full versions appeared in the American publishing house "Ardis". According to Iskander, "Progress, friends, this is when they still kill, but they are no longer cut off."