Leonid Maximowitsch Leonow

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

He spent his childhood and boyhood partly in Moscow, partly in the village of Poluchino in the Kaluga governorate . He began writing poetry as a fifteen-year-old high school student. He graduated from high school in 1918 and worked as a correspondent during the civil war. In 1957 he was the first narrator to receive the Lenin Prize for his novel The Russian Forest . He is sometimes compared to Scholokhov or Dostoevsky .

Works

Novels

Барсуки / Barsuki (The Badgers, The Badgers ) 1924
Вор / Wor (The Thief) 1927
Соть / Sot ( plant 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, Die Pyramid) 1994

Stories and short stories

Бурыга (Burgya) 1922
Гибель Егорушки (Yegorushka's end) 1922
Валина кукла (Valya's Doll) 1922
Tuatamur (Tuantamur) 1922
Петрушинский пролом (coup in Hahnendorf) 1922
Деревянная королева (The Wooden Lady) 1923
Конец мелкого человека (The End of the Little Man) 1922, 1960
Recordings of several episodes, put on paper in the city of Goguljow by Andrej Petrowitsch Kowjakin in 1923. Dt. Small townspeople's notes . Translated from the Russian by Hans Ruoff . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-608-95943-2 .
The black star 1928
The vagabond 1928
Revenge 1928
White Night 1928
His brother's wife in 1930
Бегство мистера Мак-Кинли (The Escape of Mr. McKinley, The Escape of Mister McKinley) 1961; filmed in 1975
Evgenia Ivanovna 1938, 1963

Awards

State Prize of the USSR 1977
Stalin Prize 1943
Lenin Prize 1957
Hero of Socialist Labor 1967
Order of Lenin 6 times
Order of the October Revolution 2 times
Order of the Red Banner of Labor 2 times
Order of the Great Patriotic War
Admission to the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1972

literature

Boris Thomson. The Art of Compromise: The Life and Work of Leonid Leonov. University of Toronto Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8020-3537-X
Foreign language writers. VEB Bibliografisches Institut, Leipzig 1971. pp. 355–356.

Web links

Commons : Leonid Leonow - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Hans Ruoff: Epilogue in: Leonid Leonow: Aufzüge eines Kleinstädters . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1992, p. 125 f.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Leonid Leonov biography. Retrieved March 30, 2018 (Russian).

personal data
SURNAME	Leonow, Leonid Maximowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Леонов, Леонид Максимович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Soviet writer and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH	May 31, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moscow
DATE OF DEATH	August 8, 1994
Place of death	Moscow

[1] Hans Ruoff: Epilogue in: Leonid Leonow: Aufzüge eines Kleinstädters . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1992, p. 125 f.

[orden-2] Leonid Leonov biography. Retrieved March 30, 2018 (Russian).