His first novel, Studenty (1950; âStudentsâ), won the Stalin Prize in 1951. Trifonov went as a journalist to Central Asia, where he reported on the building of the Karakum Canal, the subject of his novel Utoleniye zhazhdy (1963; âThirst Quenchingâ). Much of his work during the 1960s appearedâŠ
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