Leonid Leonov

Leonid Maximowitsch Leonov (Russian Леонид Максимович Леонов, scientific transliteration Leonid Leonov Maksimovič; * 19 Maijul / May 31 1899greg in Moscow, .. † August 8, 1994 ) was a Russian writer and playwright.

His childhood and his boyhood was spent partly in Moscow, partly in the village Poluchino of the government of Kaluga. Even as a fifteen-year high school student, he began to write poetry. He graduated in 1918 and worked during the Civil War as a correspondent. For his novel The Russian Forest he received in 1957 as the first narrator of the Lenin Prize. He is sometimes compared with Sholokhov or Dostoyevsky.

Works

Novels

  • Барсуки / Barsuki ( The Badgers, The Badgers ) 1924
  • Вор / Wor ( The Thief, The Thief ) 1927
  • Соть / Sot (factory in the jungle ) 1930
  • Скутаревский / Skutarewski ( Skutarevsky, Professor Skutarewski ) 1932
  • Дорога на океан / Doroga na okean ( The Road to Ocean Way to the Ocean) 1936
  • Русский лес / Russki les ( The Russian Forest, The Russian forest ) 1953
  • Пирамида / Piramida ( The Pyramid, The Pyramid ) 1994

Stories and novellas

  • Бурыга ( Burgya ) 1922
  • Гибель Егорушки ( Jegoruschkas end ) 1922
  • Валина кукла ( Waljas doll ) 1922
  • Туатамур ( Tuantamur ) 1922
  • Петрушинский пролом ( coup in Hahndorf ) 1922
  • Деревянная королева ( The Wood Lady ) 1923
  • Конец мелкого человека ( The end of the little man ) in 1922, 1960
  • Records of several episodes, put on paper in the city Goguljow of Andrei Petrovich Kowjakin 1923. Dt. Records of a small city-dweller. Translated from the Russian transmitted by Hans Ruoff. Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-608-95943-2.
  • The Black Star 1928
  • The Tramp 1928
  • Revenge 1928
  • His brother's wife 1930
  • Бегство мистера Мак - Кинли (The Escape of Mr. McKinley, The flight of Mr. McKinley ) 1961; filmed 1975
  • Evgenia Ivanovna 1938 1963

Awards

  • State Prize of the USSR in 1943
  • Lenin Prize in 1957
  • Hero of Socialist Labor in 1967
  • Inclusion in the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1972
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