Zamyatin

British  

/ zaˈmjatjin /

noun

1. Yevgenii Ivanovich (jɪvˈɡjenij ɪˈvanəvitʃ). 1884–1937, Russian novelist and writer, in Paris from 1931, whose works include satirical studies of provincial life in Russia and England, where he worked during World War I, and the dystopian novel We (1924)

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Zamyatin

Oleg Zamyatin, 54, testified that Hodniuk was not holding a gun when he emerged from the foxhole.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2025

The book is a work of raucous fabulation, which owes more to Bulgakov and Zamyatin than it does to Solzhenitsyn.

From New York Times ● May 24, 2022

This is the world of “We”, a novel written by Yevgeny Zamyatin in 1921.

From Economist ● May 31, 2018

British writer Aldous Huxley denied that he took any inspiration from Zamyatin for 1932's Brave New World, though there has been some scholarly debate on the matter.

From The Verge ● Jul. 19, 2016

Zamyatin was describing music as yet to be created – although it sounds uncannily like Philip Glass's to me.

From The Guardian ● May 10, 2013