Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
The brothers in the 1980s
Born
  • Arkady Natanovich Strugatsky (Russian: Аркадий Натанович Стругацкий):
  • (1925-08-28)28 August 1925
  • Batumi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union

  • Boris Natanovich Strugatsky (Russian: Борис Натанович Стругацкий):
  • (1933-04-14)14 April 1933
  • Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died

OccupationWriters
Genre
Notable awardsAelita Prize 1981

The brothers Arkady Strugatsky (28 August 1925 – 12 October 1991) and Boris Strugatsky (14 April 1933 – 19 November 2012) were Soviet and Russian science-fiction authors who collaborated through most of their careers. Their notable works include Hard to Be a God (1964), Monday Begins on Saturday (1965), and Roadside Picnic (1971), later adapted by Andrei Tarkovsky into the film Stalker (1979).