Arkadi Strugatzki

Arkadi Strugatsky (1925–1991) was a Soviet writer and translator. From the 1950s onward, he created novels, short stories, and screenplays chiefly in the field of science fiction together with his brother Boris Strugatsky (1933–2012). During his military service, Arkadi Strugatsky was trained as a Japanese interpreter and spent the war years in eastern Russia. He later worked as an editor for a publishing house and as a translator. One of the brothers’ best-known works is Roadside Picnic, adapted by Andrei Tarkovsky as the film Stalker.