Vadim Kozhevnikov


Vadim Mikhailovich Kozhevnikov was a Soviet writer. His daughter Nadezhda Kozhevnikova is also a writer.

Biography

Vadim Kozevnikov was born to a Russian family in the Siberian town of Narym, Tomsk Governorate, where his revolutionary-minded father, a physician, had been sent as an internal exile by the authorities of the Russian Empire.
Kozhevnikov studied literature and ethnology at Moscow State University, graduating in 1933. Kozhevnikov worked as a war correspondent for Pravda from 1941 to 1945, joining the Communist Party of the Soviet Union halfway into the German-Soviet War in 1943. He was elected secretary of the Union of Soviet Writers in 1949.
Kozhevnikov was officially recognized as a Hero of Socialist Labor for his contributions to Soviet literature and was elected to one term as a politician to the Soviet Union's Supreme Soviet. He was awarded the USSR State Prize following the publication of two of his novels in 1971.
A full-scale overview of Kozhevnikov's work, written by Soviet literary critic Iosif Grinberg, was published in Moscow in 1972.
Kozhevnikov died on 20 October 1984 in Moscow, aged seventy-five.

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