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Fyodor Alexandrovich Abramov
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Fyodor Alexandrovich Abramov — a Russian Soviet writer, literary scholar, critic and publicist. One of the best-known representatives of the so-called 'village prose'. He was born into a peasant family and was the youngest of five children. In 1938 he graduated from school with honors and entered Leningrad University to study in the Faculty of Philology.
In 1941 Abramov voluntarily went to the front. After being wounded he spent some time in a Leningrad hospital and was then evacuated from the besieged city. After a brief leave he served in rear units, and later was transferred to the counterintelligence department 'SMERSH'. After the end of the war he returned to Leningrad to finish his education. In 1948, having received his diploma with honors, he entered graduate school and defended his candidate's dissertation in 1951.
In 1954 Abramov published his first scholarly article devoted to the life of peasants in the postwar village. His first major novel, 'Brothers and Sisters,' was published in 1958 and began the 'Pryasliny' cycle, which also included the novels 'Two Winters and Three Summers' and 'Paths and Crossroads.' For this trilogy Abramov received the USSR State Prize. The writer's last work — the unfinished novel 'The Pure Book' — was first published in the magazine 'Neva' in 1998. Fyodor Alexandrovich Abramov died on May 14, 1983 in Leningrad after a major operation due to heart failure. He is buried in the village of Verkola in the Arkhangelsk region.
Date of birth
29 February 1920
Date of death
14 May 1983
Occupation
Writer