Zamyatin

/ zaˈmjatjin /

noun

1. ZamyatinYevgenii Ivanovich18841937MRussianWRITING: novelistWRITING: writer 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)

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times

That book was Charles Lindbergh’s autobiography, but the name is more directly drawn from the Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin’s dystopian novel of the same name, which takes place in a future society that exists entirely under mass surveillance.

From New York Times

Yevgeny Zamyatin, author of the chilling 1924 dystopia “We,” found in his work “the art of brevity and speed proper to America,” while the Italian novelist Cesare Pavese praised the writer for the strange beauty with which he imbued city life, transforming turn-of-the-century New York into “Baghdad-on-the-Hudson.”

From Washington Post

"This is a fight for the future," another demonstrator, Andrei Zamyatin, told AFP.

From BBC

She has been writing a new foreword to We, the 1920s dystopian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin reputed to have inspired Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four: “The Russian Revolution is one of my obsessions of the moment,” she explains.

From The Guardian