Fyodor Abramov

1920 - 1983

genre: short story, sketch story, short novel, novel

country of citizenship: Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Soviet Union

native language: Russian

languages spoken, written or signed: Russian

educated at: Faculty of Philology of Saint Petersburg State University

occupation: writer, literary critic, prosaist, literary historian, opinion journalist, literary scholar, literary scholar

award received: USSR State Prize, Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order of Lenin, Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class, Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad"

Fyodor Aleksandrovich Abramov (Russian: Фёдор Алекса́ндрович Абра́мов) (29 February 1920 – 14 May 1983) was a Russian novelist and literary critic. His work focused on the difficult lives of the Russian peasant class. He was frequently reprimanded for deviations from Soviet policy on writing. Source: Wikipedia (en)