- Leonid Leonov
Leonid Maximovich Leonov (Russian Леонид Максимович Леонов;
May 31 ,1899 —August 8 ,1994 ) was one of the most notableSoviet novelist s, styled the 20th-centuryDostoyevsky for the deep psychological torment of his prose. During theRussian Civil War , he worked as a reporter. His dark novel "The Thief" (1927), set in the criminal underworld of the Russian capital, was warmly welcomed by critics inRussia and abroad. In 1934, he helpedMaxim Gorky to found theUnion of Soviet Writers . Immediately after the start ofWorld War II , Leonov penned several patriotic plays, which were quickly made into movies and won him theUSSR State Prize (1943). His novel "The Russian Forest" (1953) was acclaimed by the authorities as a model Soviet book onWorld War II and received theLenin Prize . In 1967, Leonov was named aHero of Socialist Labour . He was admitted to theSoviet Academy of Sciences five years later. During the last decades of his life, he worked upon the dark nationalistic-religious epic "The Pyramid" (1994).Leonid Leonov's "The Escape of Mr. McKinley" ("Бегство мистера Мак-Кинли") has been published in the Anthology of Modern Science Fiction in 25 volumes (Библиотека современной фантастики), volume 19, Moscow, Molodaya Gvardiya, 1965 — 1973.
Bibliohraphy
* Badgers
* The Thief
* Sot' (Soviet River) (1929)
* Skutarevskij (1930-1932)
* Road to the Ocean
* The Russian Forest
* Publitsistika
* Pesy
* Saranča (locusts)
* Rasskazy
* Literatura i vrem¸a (Biblioteka Russko¸ Khudozhestvenno¸ publitsistiki)
* Evgenia Ivanovna: Povest
* Vor: Roman
* Vz¸atie Velikoshumska: Povest
* Izbrannoe
* Kasar: Román
* The Pyramid
Filmography
* 1963 Русский лес ("The Russian Forest") - screenplay
* 1975 Бегство мистера Мак-Кинли ("The Escape of Mr. McKinley") - screenplayExternal links
* [http://www.utpjournals.com/product/utq/721/721_review_shcheglov.html The Art of Compromise: The Life and Work of Leonid Leonov]
* [http://overseaex.narod.ru/Writers5/LeonidLeonov.html Leonid Leonov Biography on Russian]
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