Yuli Daniel

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Yuli Markovich Daniel
The bookcover of The Letters from Prison
Native name	Юлий Маркович Даниэль
Born	(1925-11-15)November 15, 1925 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died	December 30, 1988(1988-12-30) (aged 63) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Pen name	Nikolay Arzhak, Yu. Petrov
Nationality	Soviet
Spouse	Larisa Bogoraz, Irina Uvarova[1]
Children	Alexander Daniel[2]

Yuli Markovich Daniel (Russian: Ю́лий Ма́ркович Даниэ́ль, IPA: [ˈjʉlʲɪj ˈmarkəvʲɪtɕ dənʲɪˈelʲ] ^ⓘ; 15 November 1925 — 30 December 1988) was a Russian writer and Soviet dissident known as a defendant in the Sinyavsky–Daniel trial in 1966.

Daniel wrote and translated works of stories and poetry critical of Soviet society under the pseudonyms Nikolay Arzhak (Russian: Никола́й Аржа́к, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɐrˈʐak] ^ⓘ) and Yu. Petrov (Russian: Ю. Петро́в, IPA: [ˈju pʲɪˈtrof] ^ⓘ) published in the West to avoid censorship in the Soviet Union. Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky were convicted of anti-Soviet agitation in a show trial, becoming the first Soviet writers convicted solely for their works and for fiction, serving five years at a Gulag camp and prison.