Star Tribune: Review: 'The Story of a Life,' by Konstantin Paustovsky, translated from the Russian by Douglas Smith
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Konstantin Paustovsky
Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky was a Soviet writer nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965, 1966, 1967, and 1968.
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Born 31 May 1892 · Died 14 July 1968 · Q368812
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2022· 2 entries
Gulf News: Why Marlene Dietrich loved Konstantin Paustovsky’s works
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And 2023 respectively, Vintage Classics in the UK and New York Review Books in the US published a new translation by Douglas Smith of the first three volumes under the title The Story of a Life
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2014· 1 entry
Фонд «Русский мир»: Konstantin Paustovsky House Presented to the City of Moscow
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1968· 1 entry
Died 1968-07-14.
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1967).
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1965· 1 entry
Paustovsky was nominated for a Nobel Prize in Literature, the prize was awarded instead to Mikhail Sholokhov
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1964· 1 entry
Joseph Barnes translated the first three volumes for Pantheon Books under the title The Story of a Life
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1962· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1962).
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1943· 1 entry
Produced a screenplay for the Gorky Film Studio production of Lermontov, directed by Albert Gendelshtein
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1939· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1939).
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1927· 1 entry
And the romantic novel Blistaiushie Oblaka (“Shining Clouds”) in 1929
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1916· 1 entry
Lived in Taganrog, where he worked at the Taganrog Boiler Factory (now: Krasny Kotelschchik)
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1914· 1 entry
Transferred to the Law faculty of the University of Moscow, but World War I interrupted his education
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1912· 1 entry
Entered the faculty of Natural History in University of Kiev
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1892· 1 entry
Born 1892-05-31.
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1847· 1 entry
And moves to the Russian Civil War period when a group of Red Guards is abandoned to near-certain death on a desolate island
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