Boris Strugatsky, Russian author (died 2012)

The brothers Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky 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).