| Daniil Alexandrovich Granin
Даниил Александрович Гранин
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| Born | Daniil Alexandrovich German January 1, 1919 Volyn, Kursk, Russia, USSR |
| Occupation | Engineer, Soldier, Writer |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Alma mater | Leningrad Polytechnical Institute |
| Genres | Fiction |
Daniil Alexandrovich Granin (January 1, 1919; born as Daniil Alexandrovich German[1]) is an author born in the former Soviet Union. He started writing in the 1930s when he was still an engineering student at the Leningrad Polytechnical Institute. After completing his graduation Granin began working as a senior engineer at an energy laboratory and soon after the war broke out, he volunteered as a soldier.[2]
One of the first widely praised works of Granin was a short story about graduate students, titled Second Varient. It was published in the journal Zvezda in 1949. Granin continued to study engineering and working as a technical writer until success knocked on the door in the form of Those Who Seek; a novel inspired from his life as an engineer. The book talked about the overly bureaucratic Soviet system which tended to stifle new ideas.[2]
Granin has worked as a board member in the Leningrad Union of Writers and is a winner of many medals and honors including the State Prize for Literature in 1978. The writer continues to write in the post-Soviet Russia.[2]
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According to The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: "The main theme of Granin’s works is the romance and poetry of scientific and technological creativity and the struggle between searching, principled, genuine scientists imbued with the communist ideological context and untalented people, careerists, and bureaucrats (the novels Those Who Seek, 1954, and Into the Storm, 1962)."[3]
One of his most popular books is The Bison. The novel was published in 1987 and it tells the story of a Soviet geneticist Nikolay Timofeeff-Ressovsky.
In October 1993, he signed the Letter of Forty-Two.[4]
In 2003, he published Leningrad Under Siege (2003), an another popular novel.
Leningrad Under Siege mainly revolves around the lives of two small children, a 16-year-old boy and an old academic during the Siege of Leningrad. Written together with Ales Adamovich, the book is based on interviews, diaries and personal memoirs of those who survived the siege during 1941-44.[5]
The book was nominated for the 2004 Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage but couldn't even make it to the seven finalists.[6]
Below is a list of works by Granin:[7]