Viktor Ivanovich Likhonosov (Ви′ктор Ива′нович Лихоно′сов, April 30, 1936

1936 in literature

The year 1936 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* Life magazine is first published.* The Carnegie Medal for excellence in children's literature is established in the UK.-New books:...

, Topki, Kemerovo Oblast

Kemerovo Oblast

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, USSR) is a Soviet, Russia

Russia

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n writer, laureate of the Russian State Prize (1988), the International Mikhail Sholokhov prize and the first Yasnaya Polyana Prize (2003). In the 1960s Likhonosov, close to the derevenschiki

Village Prose

Village Prose was a movement in Soviet literature beginning during the Khrushchev Thaw, which included works that focused on the Soviet rural communities. Some point to the critical essays on collectivization in Novyi mir by Valentin Ovechkin as the starting point of Village Prose, though most of...

movement, was highly praised by Alexander Tvardovsky who published his debit stories in Novy mir

Novy Mir

Novy Mir is a Russian language literary magazine that has been published in Moscow since January 1925. It was supposed to be modelled on the popular pre-Soviet literary magazine Mir Bozhy , which was published from 1892 to 1906, and its follow-up, Sovremenny Mir , which was published 1906-1917...

, seeing the author as a Soviet heir to Ivan Bunin. In the mid-1970s through Yuri Kazakov Likhonosov met Boris Zaitsev and Georgy Adamovich

Georgy Adamovich

Georgy Viktorovich Adamovich was a Russian poet of the acmeist school, a literary critic, translator and memoirist.- Biography :Georgy Adamovich was born in the family of senior military officer Viktor Adamovich, an ethnic Pole, who in the rank of major general served as a head of Moscow military...

 and got deeply involved in researching the history of Russian emigration. Unwritten Memoirs. Our Little Paris, a 1986 novel dealing with Russian Cossacks abroad modern history, is seen as his major work. Viktor Likhonosov resides in Krasnodar

Krasnodar

Krasnodar is a city in Southern Russia, located on the Kuban River about northeast of the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. It is the administrative center of Krasnodar Krai . Population: -Name:...

where he edits the Rodnaya Kubanh literary magazine.