Yan Leopoldivich Larri (; February 15, 1900 – March 18, 1977) was a Soviet children's writer of Latvian descent. He is best known for children's science fiction novel .Евгений Викторович Харитонов, Ларри Ян Леопольдович - Приключения писателя-фантаста в "Стране счастливых", Detskaya Literatura, 2001, no. 4, pp. 101-105Ларри Ян ЛеопольдовичЛарри Ян Леопольдович
In 1941 he was arrested and imprisoned for an unusual act. Larri started writing a science fiction novel A Guest from the Sky () and sending its chapters directly to Joseph Stalin. In the novel an alien visits the Soviet Union and his naive questions and commentaries constitute the criticism of the Soviet life.
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Further reading
Rafaela Božić, The Motif of Nature in Early Russian Soviet Utopian and Dystopian Novels POZNAŃSKIE STUDIA SLAWISTYCZNE NR 22 (2022), The article comments on Larri's 1931 science fiction novel The land of the Happy (), a utopian fiction about communism
External links The Extraordinary Adventures Of Karik And Valya translated by John A. Mandeville; the text at the Internet Archive