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Konstantin Dmitrievich Vorobyov

コンスタンチン・ドミトリエーウィチ・ヴォロビョーフ

Konstantin Dmitrievich Vorobyov

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1919-09-24 （Nizhny Reutets, Kursk Governorate）
Died
1975-03-02 （Vilnius） age 55
Nationality
Soviet Union, Russia
Languages
Russian
Residence History
Kursk region, Soviet Russia → Vilnius, Lithuania

Career

Occupations
Soviet writer
Active Years
1945-1975
Influenced By
Ernest Hemingway, Truman Capote

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Scream

1962 lieutenant prose
Great Patriotic War

Slain Near Moscow

1963 lieutenant prose
Great Patriotic War

Bibliography

  • And Now Enters the Giant (1971)
  • Genka, Brother of Mine (1969)
  • ...And to All of Your Kin (1975, unfinished)
  • The Scream (1962)
  • In One Breath (1948, published 1967)
  • How Much Is Joy in Ratikny (1964)
  • Slain Near Moscow (1963)
  • Here We Are, My Lord!.. (1986, posthumously)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Most American of all Russian writers, a strange mix of Hemingway and Capote
Recurring Motifs
Great Patriotic War

Legacy

A Soviet writer, War hero and major exponent of the lieutenant prose movement in Soviet war literature. Many works unpublished or heavily censored during his lifetime.

Quotes

  • the most American of all Russian writers, a strange mix of Hemingway and Capote
    Source: Dmitry Bykov (2009)