Ivan Shukhov

Ivan Shukhov was born on 31 July 1906 in Presnovka, near Petropavlovsk, the son of a chief shepherd and of an illiterate mother who knew tales, sayings and songs. Trained at the teacher training school in Petropavlovsk, at the workers' faculty in Omsk and then at the Literary Institute in Moscow, he first worked as a journalist and said he had come to literature through the newspaper. Gorky noticed his first novels. He directed the review Prostor for eleven years, from 1963, and died in 1977.

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• NovelНенавистьIvan Shukhov · 1932not translated into EnglishLiterature