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Konstantin Mihaylovich Simonov
Константин Симонов
Birth at
22 February 1984
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His real name is Kirill Mikhailovich Simonov. Born in Petersburg. In 1938 he graduated from the M. Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow. Printing began in 1934. Since 1942 he has also worked in cinema. During the Great Patriotic War - correspondent of the newspaper "Red Star". He was the editor-in-chief of the “Literary newspaper” and the magazine “New World”. After the war, he spent three years on numerous foreign missions (Japan, USA, China). From 1958 to 1960 he lived in Tashkent as a correspondent
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His real name is Kirill Mikhailovich Simonov.
Born in Petersburg. In 1938 he graduated from the M. Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow. Printing began in 1934. Since 1942 he has also worked in cinema.
During the Great Patriotic War - correspondent of the newspaper "Red Star". He was the editor-in-chief of the “Literary newspaper” and the magazine “New World”.
After the war, he spent three years on numerous foreign missions (Japan, USA, China).
From 1958 to 1960 he lived in Tashkent as a correspondent of the newspaper Pravda on the republics of Central Asia.
The first novel "Comrades in arms" was published in 1952, then a large book - "The Living and the Dead" (1959). In 1961 the Theatre "Contemporary" staged the play Simonov "Fourth". In 1963-64 he wrote the novel "Soldiers are not born" (In 1970-71 a sequel will be written - "The Last Summer".
According to Simonov’s scripts, films were staged: “The Boy from Our City” (1942), “Wait for Me” (1943), “Days and Nights” (1943-44), “The Immortal Garrison” (1956), “Normandy-Neman” (1960, together with S. Spaakomi, E. Triolet), “The Living and the Dead” (1964).
In the postwar years, Simonov’s public activity was as follows: from 1946 to 1950 and from 1954 to 1958 he was the editor-in-chief of the journal Novy Mir; from 1950 to 1953 he was the editor-in-chief of the Literary Gazette; from 1946 to 1959 and from 1967 to 1979 he was secretary of the Union of Writers of the USSR.
Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1974), repeatedly laureate of the State Prizes of the USSR (1942, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950). In 1974 he was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor.
Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov died in 1979 in Moscow.