Overview
- Literary scholar Nikolay Podosokorskiy announced Bavilsky’s death on his Telegram channel, stating it occurred in Chelyabinsk.
- RIA Novosti quoted writer and journalist Denis Dragunsky saying Bavilsky died in hospital after an illness.
- Dragunsky noted Bavilsky had been absent from social media for a couple of months prior to his death.
- Current reporting is based on colleagues’ accounts, with no public confirmation from family or medical authorities.
- Bavilsky was a novelist and critic known for works such as The Babylon Library, The Nightshade Family, Potato Eaters, Angels First, Nodelma, Gagarin’s Last Love, and Red Dot, and he received two Novy Mir prizes and the Andrei Bely Prize.