Varlam Shalamov
Soviet writer, journalist, poet and Gulag survivor · Russia · On the map · Writers · Lived 1907 to 1982 · aged 74
Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov, baptized as Varlaam, was a Russian writer, journalist, poet, and Gulag survivor. He spent much of the period from 1937 to 1951 imprisoned in forced-labor camps in the Arctic region of Kolyma, due in part to his support of Leon Trotsky and praise of writer Ivan Bunin.
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In 1946, near death, he became a medical assistant while still a prisoner. He remained in that role for the duration of his sentence, then for another two years after being released, until 1953.
