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Vasily Grossman

Vasily Grossman

AuthorBooks · Second hand1905-1964

Vasily Semyonovich Grossman was a Soviet writer and journalist. Born to a Jewish family in Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire, Grossman trained as a chemical engineer at Moscow State University, earning the nickname Vasya-khimik because of his diligence as a student. Upon graduation, he took a job in Stalino in the Donets Basin. In the 1930s he changed careers and began writing full-time, publishing a number of short stories and several novels.

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Birth
1905
Death
1964
First book
1928
Years writing
36
Vasily Grossman began his professional career working as an engineer before dedicating himself fully to literature.
During World War II, he served as a war correspondent, which allowed him to experience the horrors of the conflict firsthand.
He was one of the first chroniclers to document the horrors of Nazi death camps after the liberation of Treblinka.
His masterpiece, Life and Fate, was confiscated by the KGB in 1961 and considered a threat to the Soviet regime.
The manuscript of his most important novel survived because it was microfilmed and smuggled out of the Soviet Union.

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