Konstantin Vorobyov

Konstantin Dmitrievich Vorobyov
Born	(1919-09-24)September 24, 1919 Kursk region, Soviet Russia
Died	March 2, 1975(1975-03-02) (aged 55) Vilnius, Lithuania (then USSR)
Period	mid-1940s – 1970s
Genre	fiction memoirs
Subject	Great Patriotic War
Notable works	The Scream (1962) Slain Near Moscow (1963)

Konstantin Dmitrievich Vorobyov (Константи′н Дми′триевич Воробьё′в; September 24, 1919 – March 2, 1975) was a Russian Soviet writer, a War hero and a major proponent of the "lieutenants' prose" subgenre in the Soviet war literature. Vorobyov, who was born in the Kursk region, Soviet Russia but who spent most of his life in Vilnius, Lithuania (then in the USSR; also his deathplace), wrote 10 short novels (best known is Slain Near Moscow, 1963) and 30 short stories, many of which were either unpublished in his lifetime or suffered greatly from massive censorial cuts. According to poet, critic and literature historian Dmitry Bykov, Vorobyov was "the most American of all Russian writers, a strange mix of Hemingway and Capote".^[1][2]

Select bibliography

• Enters the Giant (Vot prishol velikan, Вот пришел великан, 1971)
• Genka, My Brother (Genka, brat moi, Генка, брат мой, 1969)
• ...And to All of Your Kin (...I vsemu rodu tvoyemu, ...И всему роду твоему, 1975, unfinished)
• The Scream (Krik, Крик, 1962)
• In One Breath (Odnim dykhaniyev, Одним дыханием, 1948, published in 1967)
• How Much Is Joy in Ratikny (Pochom v Rakitnom radosti, Почём в Ракитном радости, 1964)

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