Vadim Kozhevnikov
| Vadim Kozhevnikov | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 22, 1909 Narym, Tomsk Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died |
October 20, 1984 (aged 75) Moscow, USSR |
Vadim Mikhaylovich Kozhevnikov (Russian: Вадим Михайлович Кожевников; 22 April 1909 [O.S. 9 April], Narym – 20 October 1984, Moscow) was a Soviet writer. His daughter Nadezhda Kozhevnikova is also a writer.
Biography
Vadim Kozevnikov was born in a family of Russian ethnicity[1] in the Siberian town of Narym, Tomsk Governorate (present-day Kolpashevsky District, Tomsk Oblast), where his revolutionary-minded father, a physician, had been sent as an internal exile by the authorities of the Russian Empire.
Kozhevnikov studied literature and ethnology at Moscow State University, graduating in 1933. Kozhevnikov worked as a war correspondent for Pravda from 1941 to 1945, joining the Communist Party of the Soviet Union halfway into the German-Soviet War in 1943. He was elected secretary of the Union of Soviet Writers in 1949.
Kozhevnikov was officially recognized as a Hero of Socialist Labor for his contributions to Soviet literature and was elected to one term as a politician to the Soviet Union's Supreme Soviet. He was awarded the USSR State Prize following the publication of two of his novels in 1971.
A full-scale overview of Kozhevnikov's work, written by Soviet literary critic Iosif Grinberg, was published in Moscow in 1972.
Kozhevnikov died on October 20, 1984 in Moscow, aged seventy-five.
Awards
- Hero of Socialist Labour
- Order of Lenin (2)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Order of the October Revolution
- Order of the Patriotic War
- Order of the Red Star
- USSR State Prize
English translations
- The Captain, from Such a Simple Thing and Other Stories, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1959. from Archive.org
- Shield and Sword: The amazing Career of a Soviet Agent in the Nazi Secret Service, MacGibbon and Kee, 1970.
- Shield and Sword, Mayflower Books, 1973.
- The Strong in Spirit, Progress Publishers, 1973.
- Ivan Fomich, from Anthology of Soviet Short Stories, Vol 2, Progress Publishers, 1976.
- Special Subunit: Two Novellas, Imported Publications, 1984.
Bibliography
- Tales Of The War (Рассказы о войне, 1942)
- The Boy From The Outskirts (Мальчик с окраины, screenplay, 1947)
- Ahead To The Dawn (Заре навстречу), 1956—1957
- Meet Baluyev! (Знакомьтесь, Балуев!), 1960 (film adaptation, 1963)
- Flying Day (День летящий), 1962
- Shield And Sword (Щит и меч), 1965 (film adaptation, 1968)
- At Noon On The Sunny Side (В полдень на солнечной стороне), 1973
- Roots And Herbs (Корни и крона), 1981—1982