Works of Soviet Literature summarized for those unable or too lazy to read them in the original.
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Works of Soviet Literature summarized for those unable or too lazy to read them in the original. |
Zagrebelny, Pavlo Arkhipovich. Ukrainian writer born
on 25 August 1924 in the village of Soloshino in the Poltava Region.
After finishing school at age 17, he enlisted in the army and fought in
the defense of Kiev and in the battle on the approaches to Bryansk. He
was wounded several times. In 1945, Zagrebelny worked in the Soviet
military mission in West Germany. Later, he pursued a degree in
philology at Dnepropetrovsk University. His works include Thoughts on Immortality (1957), Heat (1961), The Miracle (1968) and From the Point of View of Eternity (1971). In 1974 he won the Ukrainian Shevchenko Prize, and in 1980 he was awarded the USSR State Prize. He has also authored a series of historical novels about the Kievian Rus including Divo and Evpraksiya. Other titles include Roxsolana, Ya, Bogdan, Smert u Kievi, Pervomist, Pivdenii Komfort, and Yulia. |
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