Anatoly Tikhonovich Gladilin was born on August 21, 1935, and died on October 24, 2018.

He was a Soviet and Russian author and artist.

Anatoly Gladilin absconded from the Soviet Union in 1976 and in this manner lived in Paris.

During the 1960s, Gladilin was a standout amongst the most celebrated and promising youthful Russian creators, alongside Vasily Aksyonov.

While in Paris, he worked for the Radio Liberty and the Deutsche Welle.

Among his distributed works in the West was a novel, FSSR: The French Soviet Socialist Republic — a story of a Communist overthrow in France.

Gladilin was granted with the Medal of Pushkin in 2012.

Anatoly Gladilin passed away at 83 years old.