Yuri Karlovich Olyesha (1899-1960). A Russian novelist under Stalin. He wrote with disarmingly high spirits and ingenuousness, and this long prevented his being sentenced to 'internal exile' for the political implications of his fiction. In his day he was regarded as the equal of Pasternak, but he is now forgotten. He was last heard of working as a journalist in the remote Ural mountains, and news of his death only reached the West about five years afterwards. He is known to have written two books of short-stories that have appeared in English, Love and Other Stories and The Cherrystone - both concerned with dreams of adolescence - and longer fiction called Envy and Other Works (Zavist, 1926). He is said to have returned from exile, and shortly after this he died in Moscow - apparently of a heart attack - in 1960. Some references describe him as a playwright.