Leonid Leonov

Leonid Leonov (1899-1994), born in Moscow, was the son of Maxim Leonov, a poet of peasant origin, arrested in 1905 and then exiled to Arkhangelsk, where the son published his first texts. During the civil war, he was a soldier and a correspondent for Red Army newspapers. His first novel, in 1924, launched his career. He received the Stalin Prize in 1943, the Lenin Prize in 1957 for a novel about the Russian forest, and the title of Hero of Socialist Labour in 1967. He published a last major novel in 1994 and died in Moscow on 8 August 1994.

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