Writer Nikolai Dubov: biography and creativity

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Socialist realism is an artistic trend in literature and art, which was generally the leading one in the USSR. As the name suggests, it depicts the concept of human life in a socialist society. The main principles of this genre were considered 3 concepts: nationality, ideology and concreteness.

Works in the genre of socialist realism were created by such creative figures as Mikhail Sholokhov, Nikolai Ostrovsky, Vladimir Mayakovsky and others. Among them is Nikolai Dubov. During his life, he created about a dozen stories and novels.

Biography

The future writer, whose full name is Nikolai Ivanovich Dubov, was born on November 4, 1910 in the city of Omsk. His parents were ordinary working class people.

When the boy was 12 years old, he and his family moved to Ukraine. After graduating from school there, Nikolai Dubov worked for some time at the factory. Before the start of the Great Patriotic War, Dubov changed many different professions, including being a journalist. He also studied at the Faculty of History of Leningrad University, but did not graduate.

In 1941, not getting to the front for a reasonpoor he alth, Nikolai Dubov returned to the factory again and worked there until 1944.

At the end of the war he moved to Kyiv, where he spent the rest of his life. It was in Kyiv that Dubov began his literary career. Working in newspapers and magazines, at the same time he published his first works - the plays "At the Threshold" and "Morning Comes", which, however, were not very successful. In the early 1950s, Nikolai Dubov became known as the author of books for young readers aged 14-18.

The writer died on May 24, 1983 in Kyiv, at that time he was 72 years old.

Bibliography

Dubov's first work, written for youth, was the story "At the End of the Earth", published in 1951. The main characters are four friends living in a small village in Altai. The story is being told from the perspective of one of them. Like all young people, these guys dream of adventure and great discoveries. This is what Dubov's story tells about.

The next publication of the writer - the story "Lights on the River" - was published in 1952. The main character is again a child, this time the boy Kostya, who came to his uncle on the Dnieper. He is waiting for new experiences, friends, acquaintance with the natural world. This story became so famous that in March 1954 the premiere of the comedy film of the same name, directed by Viktor Eisymont and based on Dubov's work, took place.

One of the most popular novels by Nikolai Dubov - "Woe to one", consisting of two stories "The Orphan" and "Hard Trial", which werewritten as independent works and previously published separately, and in 1967 they were combined into a novel-dulogy. The plot is based on the life of the boy Lesha (and later - the adult Alexei) Gorbachev, which cannot be called happy: because of the war, he was left an orphan and ended up in an orphanage.

Writer Awards and Prizes

The hero of our article is the winner of two literary awards. The first of them - the prize of the All-Union competition for the best book for children - he was awarded in 1950 for his debut story for the younger generation "On the Edge of the Earth".

In 1970, Dubov received the USSR State Prize for his novel Woe to One.