Author: Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovskiǐ
Alternate names: A. Tvardovskiĭ
Born: 21 June 1910
Died: 18 December 1971
Bio: Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovsky (Russian: Александр Трифонович Твардовский) was a Soviet poet and writer and chief editor of Novy Mir literary magazine from 1950 to 1954 and 1958 to 1970. During his editorship, the magazine published *One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich* by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He is best known for his epic poem *Vasili Tyorkin*.