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Vladimir Vladimirovich Lichutin

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Vladimir Vladimirovich Lichutin

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1940-03-13 (Mezen, Arkhangelsk Oblast)
Nationality
USSR, Russia
Languages
Russian
Residence History
Mezen, Arkhangelsk Oblast → Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) → Peredelkino, near Moscow → Chasovo, Ryazan Oblast

Career

Occupations
writer, prosaist, journalist
Active Years
1972-
Affiliations
Union of Soviet Writers, Union of Russian Writers
Memberships
Union of Soviet Writers USSR, Russian Writers' Union

Education

Leningrad State University (now Saint Petersburg State University)
Faculty of Journalism / Journalism Department
Period: 1963-1969
Year of Graduation: 1969
Country: USSR
Higher School of Journalism and Mass Communications
Higher Literary Courses of the Union of Soviet Writers
Period: 1975-1978
Year of Graduation: 1978
Country: USSR
Arkhangelsk Forestry Technical School
Year of Graduation: 1959
Country: USSR

Awards

Big Book Prize (Russia)
2006
Work: Fugitive from Paradise
Result: 受賞
Yasnaya Polyana Literary Prize
2009
Work: Raskol
Result: 受賞
Bunin Prize
2011
Work: River of Love
Result: 受賞
Government Prize of the Russian Federation in Culture
2011
Work: Raskol
Organization: Government of the Russian Federation
Result: 受賞
Golden Delvig Prize
2012
Work: The Inexpressible Soul
Result: 受賞
Fedor Abramov Prize 'Pure Book'
2020
Work: Waiting for God
Result: 受賞
Arkady Gaidar Prize
1972
Work: Land and People
Organization: Arkhangelsk branch of the Union of Journalists of the USSR
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

White Hut

1972 Novella

Debut novella depicting life in a Pomor village.

village lifefamily

Raskol

2000 Historical novel

Trilogy about the Raskol schism in Russian Orthodoxy.

religious schismRussian Orthodoxysoul of the people

Lyubostay

1983 Novel

Novel about love and village traditions.

lovetradition

Fugitive from Paradise

2005 Novel

Story of one who fled from paradise.

escapequest of the soul

The Inexpressible Soul

1989 Essays

Reflections on the Russian people.

Russian soulnational character

Bibliography

  • Белая горница
  • Золотое дно
  • Душа горит
  • Фармазон
  • Любостай
  • Раскол
  • Milady Rotman
  • Беглец из рая
  • В ожидании Бога

Style & Themes

Literary Style
free compositionuse of folkloreintrospective depictionvillage prose
Recurring Motifs
Pomor villageslife on the White Sea coastlives across generationsquest for the soul

Legacy

Representative of Russian village prose, depicting the Russian soul in Pomor villages.

Trivia

  • Signed the 'Letter of 74' in 1990.
  • Lives in Peredelkino.