Yevgeny Zamyatin

Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884 - 1937) was a Russian author best known for his science fiction and political satires. After his 1921 futuristic novel, 'We', was banned by the Soviets for its politics, it was surreptitiously published in the West. The original manuscript was also smuggled to Prague, creating a controversy in the USSR. Zamyatin, who also worked as an editor and who was responsible for translating writers such...