The writer Boris Dyshlenko died

On November 27, at the 75th year of his life, writer Boris Dyshlenko died, one of the central figures of the Leningrad ignorant prose of the 1970s-the 1980s.

Boris Ivanovich Dyshlenko was born in 1941 in Novosibirsk, grew in Taganrog, Kislovodsk, Riga, since 1959 his life was associated with Leningrad-Petersburg.

In 1959 he entered the production faculty of the Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography, in 1962 he was expelled "for forgery and antisocial behavior." He was an artist-decorator in the theater. Since 1965, the Lensoveta, on Lenfilm, later worked in the field of book graphics, since 1980 - at the sub -stations, since 1987 - a gas operator in boiler houses, in 1967-1980 he was a member of the city committee of artists.

The author of the novels “The Constellation of the Gemini” (1964–1974) and “Lyudmila” (started in 1972, not completed), the story “Five Corners” (1977), cycles of prose and miniatures.

In 1976, the texts of Boris Dyshlenko first appeared in Samizdat (magazine "Clock"), it was also printed in the magazine "Obvodny Canal", the collection "Leprozoriy - 23", since 1979 - abroad ("Glass" magazine).

In 1980, Boris Dyshlenko was awarded the Andrei Bely Prize - a sign of higher recognition in unofficial literature. For the first time, his book was able to see the light in Russia only in 1997.