Yevgeny Zamyatin was born in 1884 in the town of Lebedyan in Russia. Before his writing career he was a naval engineer. After being arrested and released during the 1905 revolution he continued to live illegally in Russia and started to write. Some of his major works include The Islanders, Fisher of Men, and his most nobable work, We. Zamyatin was granted permission to leave the Soviet Union in 1931 from Joseph Stalin and moved to France. He died of a heart attack in Paris in 1937.
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