Viktor Koklyushkin


Viktor Mikhailovich Koklyushkin is a Soviet and Russian satirist and television host.

Biography

Viktor Koklyushkin was born in 1945 in Moscow. He graduated from the Publishing and Printing College and the Higher theatrical courses GITIS. In 1969 he became the author of Koklyushkin page Literaturnaya Gazeta. Koklyushkin wrote monologues for such entertainers as Efim Shifrin, Yevgeny Petrosyan, Klara Novikova, Vladimir Vinokur. The author of 10 books of short stories, novellas and novels. Published in 1972 in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Bulgaria. In 1987 he was awarded a literary prize Yunost Magazine.
Since 2012 Koklyushkin is a columnist Argumenty i Fakty.

Personal life

He married for the second.