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Vladimir Semenovich Batshev is a Russian writer. In 1965-66, one of the organizers and leaders of the informal literary society SMOG (`The Youngest Society of Geniuses - the Power of Thought, Orgy Hyperball`), editor of the magazine "Sphinxes" (No. 1-4), almanacs "Chu", "Ricochet", " Vanguard". Arrested 21.4.1966 and 25.4.1966 sentenced to 5 years "for parasitism". He served a link in the village of Bolshoy Ului, Krasnoyarsk Territory. Under the pressure of international public opinion, in particular, the Posev publishing house, he was released in 1968 under an amnesty. In 1968-75 he participated in the dissident movement. In 1969, together with V. Kononenko, he published the samizdat almanac "Fracture". Graduated from the screenwriting department of VGIK. He worked as a film screenwriter, literary consultant in the Student Meridian magazine, in the Children's Literature and Young Guard publishing houses. In 1989-1991 he was a representative of the Posev publishing house in the USSR. 1991-93 - First Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Literary News weekly. 1993-95 head of the Bridges publishing house organized by him, which in two years managed to publish 25 books by Russian and Russian foreign authors. From January 1989 to March 1995 - a freelance columnist for Radio Liberty. In February 1995 he emigrated to Germany with his wife. Member of the German Writers' Union and the international PEN club. Since April 1998 - editor of the monthly magazine Literary European and chairman of the Union of Russian Writers in Germany, since January 2004 - editor of Bridges magazine. NF occupies an insignificant place in TV-ve B., but its two science fiction. novel gained fame: `Chronicle of the day ZET` (19..) is a pop. kind of NF posts. period - political. fiction `short range`; in `Prophetic Dreams` (1992) the traditional themes of science fiction are solved in an original and dynamic way: the problem of humanity's contact with an alien mind and the mysteries of man's supernatural abilities.