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Leonid Leonov
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Russian writer (1899-1994)
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Leonid Leonov (Леонид Леонов) was a male playwright, writer, journalist, and prose writer born in Moscow in 1899. He wrote in Russian and began his work period in 1920. His notable works include *Chariot of Wrath*, *Soviet river*, *The Thief*, *Road to the ocean*, and *Der Dieb*. He held citizenship in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and Russia, and was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Leonov received several awards, including the Stalin Prize, USSR State Prize, Order of Lenin, and Hero of Socialist Labour. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was a member of the USSR Union of Writers, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, and the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He died in Moscow in 1994 and is buried at Novodevichy Cemetery.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 26
Top works
- Chariot of Wrath
- Soviet river
- The Thief
- Road to the ocean,
- Der Dieb
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Key facts
- Native name
- Леонид Максимович Леонов
- Born
- Leonid Maksimovich Leonov , ( 1899-05-31 ) 31 May 1899, Moscow , Russian Empire
- Died
- 8 August 1994 (1994-08-08) (aged 95), Moscow, Russia
- Genre
- Fiction, drama
- Notable works
- Sot , Soviet River , The Badgers , The Thief , The Russian Forest
- Spouse
- Tatayana Sabashnikova ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1926 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Moscow
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Occupation
- poet
- Political party
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Image
- Писатель Леонид Леонов.jpg
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- place of burial
- Novodevichy Cemetery
- date of birth
- 1899-05-31
- date of death
- 1994-08-08
- Commons category
- Leonid Leonov
- member of
- Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- start of work period
- 1920-00-00
- writing language
- Russian
- name in native language
- Леонид Леонов
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Encyclopedic overview
Leonid Maksimovich Leonov (Russian: Леони́д Макси́мович Лео́нов; 31 May [O.S. 19 May] 1899 — 8 August 1994) was a Soviet novelist and playwright of socialist realism. His works have been compared with Dostoevsky's deep psychological torment.
Early life
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