Author: Mikhail Aleksandrovich Dudin
Born: 20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1916
Died: 31 December 1994
Bio: Mikhail Aleksandrovich Dudin (Russian: Михаил Александрович Дудин) was a Russian Soviet prose writer, poet, translator and journalist, war correspondent. Public figure, screenwriter, author of lyrics and over 70 books of poetry. Hero of Socialist Labor (1976), laureate of the USSR State Prize (1981).