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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin led tributes to the author Monday, saying: "His death is an enormous, irreplaceable loss for Russian literature and culture."
When KGB agents discovered a manuscript of his work "The Burn" in 1980, Aksyonov was forced into exile in the United States and stripped of his Russian citizenship.
The separation from his homeland greatly pained the writer, and it was only with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 that he returned and also became a Russian citizen again.
His talent was recognised on his return and he won Russia's top literary award, The Booker in 2004, with the historical novel "Voltarian Men and Women", about a meeting between the famous philosopher and empress Catherine II.
In the same year, "Generations of Winter" was transformed into a major television adaptation on Russian television.
Since 2005, Aksyonov lived mainly in Moscow, but also made regular visits to his house in Biarritz, in the southwest of France.
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When KGB agents discovered a manuscript of his work "The Burn" in 1980, Aksyonov was forced into exile in the United States and stripped of his Russian citizenship.
The separation from his homeland greatly pained the writer, and it was only with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 that he returned and also became a Russian citizen again.
His talent was recognised on his return and he won Russia's top literary award, The Booker in 2004, with the historical novel "Voltarian Men and Women", about a meeting between the famous philosopher and empress Catherine II.
In the same year, "Generations of Winter" was transformed into a major television adaptation on Russian television.
Since 2005, Aksyonov lived mainly in Moscow, but also made regular visits to his house in Biarritz, in the southwest of France.
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