Fyodor Gladkov

Fyodor Gladkov

Fyodor Vasilyevich Gladkov ( _ru. Федор Васильевич Гладков) was a Soviet Socialist realist writer born on OldStyleDate|June 21|1883|June 9 in Chernavka, Saratov gubernia to a family of Old Believers. He died on December 20, 1958 in Moscow.

Gladkov joined a Communist group in 1904, and in 1905 went to Tiflis (now Tbilisi) and was arrested there for revolutionary activities. He was sentenced to three years' exile. He then moved to Novorossiisk.

Among other positions, he served as the editor of the newspaper "Krasnoye Chernomorye", secretary of the journal "Novy Mir", special correspondent for "Izvestiya", and director of the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow from 1945 to 1948.

He received the Stalin Prize for his literary accomplishments, and is considered a classic writer of Soviet Socialist Realist literature.

Published works

*Towards The Light (1900)
*After Work (1900)
*Maksuitka (1901)
*Before Hard Labor (1903)
*They Went Off to War (1904)
*The Inspection (1905)
*Three In One Hut (1905)
*The Outcasts (1908)
*The Abyss (aka "The Only Son") (1917)
*Spring Shoots (1921)
*The Fiery Steed (1922)
*Cement (1925)
*The Old Secret Prison (1926)
*The Cephalopodous Man (1927)
*Energy (aka "Power") (1932-1938)
*The Birch Grove (1941)
*The Scorched Soul (1943)
*The Vow (1944)
*Story of My Childhood (1949)
*The Outlaws (1950)
*Evil Days (1954),
*Restless Youth" (unfinished)

External links

* [http://www.sovlit.com/bios/gladkov.html Soviet Lit]


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