Yuri Trifonov was a twentieth-century Russian novelist. An originator of the Urban Prose genre, Trifanov continued to publish novellas depicting the quotidian existence of ordinary Muscovites, followed by historical novels.

His first novel, The Students, won him the Stalin Prize. Other works include The Quenching of Thirst; the cycle Muscovite novellas—which includes The Exchange, Preliminary Conclusions, The Long Good-Bye, Another Life, and The House on the Embankment; the stories Vera and Zoyka and Mushroom Autumn; and the historical novels The Impatient Ones and The Old Man.

Trifonov also wrote the documentary novel, The Campfire Glow, in which he described the revolutionary activities of his father and his uncle Evgeny―the excerpts of whose diaries are included in the narrative―before the revolution and during the civil war.

Posthumous publications include the collection of short stories, House Upside Down; the novel Time and Place; and Trifonov's last major work, The Disappearance.