Author: Гайто Газданов
Alternate names: Gaito Gazdanov; Gaïto Gazdanov; G. Gazdanov; Gaĭto Ivanovich Gazdanov
Born: 1903
Died: 1971
Bio: Гайто́ Газда́нов (23 ноября (6 декабря) 1903, Санкт-Петербург — 5 декабря 1971, Мюнхен) — русский писатель-эмигрант, прозаик, литературный критик. 

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Gaito Gazdanov was a Russian émigré writer of Ossetian descent, living in Paris. Gazdanov's first stories were published in France in 1926 in Russian. His novels *An Evening with Claire* (1929) and *The Spectre of Alexander Wolf* (1948) became his most well-known works, mentioned by writers Maxim Gorky, Ivan Bunin and Vladislav Khodasevich. Gazdanov was a member of the French Resistance in occupied France. In 1953 he joined Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty as an editor. Although he learned perfect French whilst living in France, Gazdanov continued writing stories in Russian.