Valentin Teitelboim Voloski ( Spanish: Valentín Teitelboim Volosky , nickname Volodya Teitelboim ( Spanish ) Volodia ); March 17, 1916 , Chillan - January 31, 2008 , Santiago ) - Chilean prose writer and poet , public figure and politician, underground member, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Chile .
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| Aliases | Volodya |
| Date of Birth | March 17, 1916 |
| Place of Birth | Chillan , Chile |
| Date of death | January 31, 2008 (91 years old) |
| Place of death | Santiago |
| Citizenship |  Chile |
| Occupation | Prose writer, poet |
| Education | |
| The consignment | Communist Party of Chile |
| Main ideas | Marxism-Leninism |
| Awards | Chilean National Literature Award (2002)  |
Biography
Born in the family of the small merchant Moses Teitelboym and Sarah Volosko, who emigrated from Ukraine and Bessarabia , respectively, from the Jewish pogroms and political upheaval in the Russian Empire [1] . After graduation, he entered the law faculty of the University of Chile, which he graduated in 1943 . Moses Teitelboim’s niece, Sofia Samuilovna, married in 1916 in Odessa with the nephew of Russian painter Alexei Kondratievich Savrasov, and their grandson, Alex Maurice Savrasoff, is the editor-in-chief of the Paris Bureau of the European Guild of Theater producers [2] .
In 1932 he joined the Union of Communist Youth, and in 1936 he joined the Communist Party of Chile . Active participant in the youth movement. He was elected a delegate to the World Congress of Youth for Peace in New York in 1938 . In 1946 he was elected to the Central Committee of the CPC . During anti-communist persecution by President González, Videla headed the party’s press organ, the Siglo newspaper (Centennial). In 1956, he was arrested and imprisoned in Pisagua, a concentration camp that served as a detention center for left-wing oppositionists (described the life of prisoners there in the novel “Seed on the Sand”).
Since 1961, he has been elected deputy, and since 1965, the Senator of the National Congress of Chile. He remained in this post until the military coup of 1973 . After the coup, he went underground, and then emigrated to the USSR . While in exile, he took an active part in the work of the overseas part of the leadership of the HRC and the international solidarity movement with Chile . He worked on the Soviet broadcasting. In 1987, he illegally returned to Chile . In 1989, he was elected Secretary General of the Communist Party of Chile .
Teitelboim is the author of a significant number of literary, journalistic and popular science works, in particular, biographies of P. Neruda and H. L. Borges . In the last years of his life, he moved away from active political life, devoting himself to writing books. In 2002, he was awarded the National Literature Prize.
He was a member of the editorial board of the journal Detective and Politics.
Publications in Russian
- Internal warfare. - M .: Progress, 1982.
- Neruda . - M .: Progress, 1988.
- Two Borges. - SPb. : Alphabet, 2003.
Notes
- ↑ Oleg Yasinsky . Volodya Teitelboim Dies
- ↑ Tatyana SKAVRONSKAYA. Project Savrasova . Internet newspaper "Sochi-news.rf" (02/07/2018). Date of treatment November 1, 2018.