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Konstantin Aleksandrovich Fedin (Russian: Константи́н Алекса́ндрович Фе́дин, IPA: [kənstɐnʲˈtʲin ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ ˈfʲedʲɪn] (listen); 24 February [O.S. 12 February] 1892 – 15 July 1977) was a Soviet and Russian novelist and literary functionary.

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Konstantin Fedin
Born	Konstantin Aleksandrovich Fedin (1892-02-24)24 February 1892 Saratov, Russian Empire
Died	15 July 1977(1977-07-15) (aged 85) Moscow, Soviet Union
Occupation	Poet, novelist
Period	1920s–1970s
Genre	Fiction, poetry
Notable works	Cities and Years

Biography

Born in Saratov of humble origins, Fedin studied in Moscow and Germany and was interned there during World War I.[1] After his release, he worked as an interpreter in the first Soviet embassy in Berlin.[2] On returning to Russia, he joined the Bolsheviks and served in the Red Army. After leaving the Party in 1921, he joined the literary group called the Serapion Brothers, who supported the Revolution, but wanted freedom for literature and the arts.

His first story, "The Orchard," was published in 1922, as was his play Bakunin v Drezdene (Bakunin in Dresden). His first two novels are his most important; Goroda i gody (1924; tr. as Cities and Years, 1962, "one of the first major novels in Soviet literature"[4]) and Bratya (Brothers, 1928) both deal with the problems of intellectuals at the time of the October Revolution, and include "impressions of the German bourgeois world" based on his wartime imprisonment.[5]

His later novels include Pokhishchenie Evropy (The rape of Europe, 1935), Sanatorii Arktur (The Arktur sanatorium, 1939), and the historical trilogy, Pervye radosti (First joys, 1945), Neobyknovennoe leto (An unusual summer, 1948), and Kostyor (The Fire, 1961–67). He also wrote a memoir Gorky sredi nas (Gorky among us, 1943). Edward J. Brown sums him up as follows: "Fedin, while he is probably not a great writer, did possess in a high degree the talent for communicating the atmosphere of a particular time and place. His best writing is reminiscent re-creation of his own experiences, and his memory is able to select and retain sensuous elements of long-past scenes which render their telling a rich experience."[6]

From 1959 until his death in 1977, he served as chair of the Union of Soviet Writers.

Awards

• Hero of Socialist Labour (1967)
• Four Orders of Lenin
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour, twice
• Order of the October Revolution
• Stalin Prize, 1st class (1949) - for the novel "First Joy" (1945) and "No Ordinary Summer" (1947-1948)
• Order of the GDR, twice^{[citation needed]}

English Translations

• No Ordinary Summer, 2 vols, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1950.
• Sanatorium Arktur, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1957.
• Early Joys, Vintage, 1960.
• The Conflagration, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1968.
• Cities and Years, Northwestern University Press, 1993.

References

Sources

• Encyclopædia Britannica
• A.K. Thorlby (ed.), The Penguin Companion to Literature: European (Penguin, 1969).

External links

• http://www.spartacus-educational.com/RUSfedin.htm
• http://www.sovlit.net/bios/fedin.html

На других языках

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[ru] Федин, Константин Александрович

Константи́н Алекса́ндрович Фе́дин (12 (24) февраля 1892, Саратов, Российская империя — 15 июля 1977, Москва, СССР) — русский советский писатель и журналист, специальный корреспондент. Первый секретарь (1959—1971) и председатель правления (1971—1977) Союза писателей СССР. Член АН СССР и Немецкой академии искусств (ГДР) (1958). Герой Социалистического Труда (1967).

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