Daniil Granin
Russia-Soviet writer and historian
Daniil Alexandrovich Granin (Russian: Дании́л Алекса́ндрович Гра́нин) (1 January 1919[1] – 4 July 2017), original family name German (Russian: Ге́рман),[2] was an author born in the former Soviet Union. Granin started writing in the 1930s. Granin served as a board member of the Leningrad Union of Writers, and he was a winner of many medals and honors including the State Prize for Literature in 1978 and Hero of Socialist Labor 1989.[3]
Daniil Alexandrovich Granin
Даниил Александрович Гранин | |
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| Born | Daniil Alexandrovich German 1 January 1919 Volyn, Kursk, Russia, USSR |
| Died | 4 July 2017 (aged 98) Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Occupation | Engineer, Soldier, Writer |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Alma mater | Leningrad Polytechnical Institute |
| Genre | Fiction |
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- ↑ Year of birth mistakenly given in some sources as 1918 because of a misprint in a 1964 literary encyclopedia: Vyacheslav Ogryzko, Russkie pisateli, sovremennaya epokha (Literaturnaya Rossiaya, 2004) ["Во втором томе «Краткой литературной энциклопедии» (М., 1964) дата рождения ошибочно указана 1 января 1918 года."].
- ↑ "Dictionary of Literary Biography on Daniil Granin". Retrieved 2011-02-19..
- ↑ "Гранин Даниил Александрович". War Heroes.
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