Russian writer and activist Eduard Limonov has died

(ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 17 - Eduard Limonov died at the age of 77. Interfax announces it. Poet, writer, journalist, political leader, founder of the National-Bolshevik Party, Limonov - synonym of Eduard Veniaminovich Savenko - was born in 1943 in Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod.
He moved to Kharkov (Ukraine) at a very young age and began composing avant-garde poetry; he then lived in Moscow (1967-74) and in New York, where he frequented avant-garde circles and began to work on his first novel, Eto ja, Edicka, released in 1976 (in Italy Eddy-baby, I love you, 2005). In Paris since 1982, he worked in the communist newspaper L'Humanité and in the nationalist Le Choc du mois, sympathizing with the right-wing extremists and obtaining French citizenship in 1987.
Returning to Russia in 1991 with the fall of the USSR, he began to devote himself to political activity: he founded the newspaper Limonka, but above all the Bolshevik National Party (1992). Neglianni the party was particularly active in the actions of protest and in the fight against the regime of Vladimir Putin, which led to his being banned in 2007. In 2001, Limonov was arrested on charges of terrorism, conspiracy against the constitutional order and arms trafficking; sentenced to four years in prison, he was released two years earlier for good conduct.
Discussed, controversial, radical, it has become known to the western public mainly thanks to the Limonov biography of Emmanuel Carrère. Among his works published in Italy Il librodell'acqua (2004); Diary of a failure (2004); The triumph of metaphysics. Memoirs of a writer in prison (2013), the autobiographical text Zona Industriale (2018) and the novel Ilboia (2019). (HANDLE).