Anton Fedorovich Khizhnyak ( 1907 - 1993 ) - Soviet and Ukrainian writer. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1932.
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| Date of Birth | November 25 ( December 8 ) 1907 | ||||
| Place of Birth | Zachepilovka village, Kharkov province , Russian empire | ||||
| Date of death | 1993 | ||||
| Citizenship |  the USSR  Ukraine | ||||
| Occupation | prose writer , essayist , playwright | ||||
| Years of creativity | 1927 - 1993 | ||||
| Direction | socialist realism | ||||
| Genre | play , historical novel , novel | ||||
| Language of Works | Ukrainian | ||||
| Debut | “Blue Blood” (short story, 1927 ) | ||||
| Awards | Prize to them. J. Z. Pocus, Gamal Abdel Nasser International Prize | ||||
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Biography
He was born on November 25 ( December 8 ), 1907, in the village of Zachepilovka (now Kharkiv Oblast , Ukraine ) into a peasant family. In 1941 he graduated from KSPI . Began to print in 1927. The first story, “Blue Blood”, was written within the walls of the Krasnograd Museum of Local Lore, in which he used a rich library. It was published in 1929. The first collection of Lviv Stories (Lviv Opovidannya) was published in 1948. He spent many years in newspaper work. In 1950–61 he was the editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian Literary Newspaper. He became famous for the historical novel "Daniil of Galitsky" (1951, translated into Russian in 1956). In it, the writer conveyed the spirit of a distant era, created an impressive image of Prince Danila , who confirmed the greatness of Galician Rus. He wrote the play “On the Great Land” (“On the Great Earth”, staged in 1949, published in 1951). He died in the fall of 1993 . He was buried in Kiev at the Baykovsky cemetery .
Awards and Prizes
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor
- Order of the Badge of Honor (11.24.1960)
- medals
- The Zachepilov collective farm established a prize named after brigade commander Yakov Zakharovich Pokus. The first prize was awarded to Anton Fedorovich Khizhnyak, and he transferred it to the Peace Foundation.
Family
Son - Khizhnyak Igor Antonovich - doctor of historical sciences, doctor of political sciences, professor, academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Political Sciences.
Creativity
Novels
- Daniil of Galitsky ( 1951 )
- Through the Century ( 1989 )
Tale
- "Across Sweden" ( 1958 , travel diary)
- Tamara ( 1959 )
- "Restless" ("Nevgamon", 1961 )
- “Grandchildren will ask” (“Onuki sleep”, 1963 )
- The Nile Legend ( 1966 ) (awarded the Gamal Abdel Nasser International Prize)
- "Kiev Prelude" ( 1977 )
Journalism
- “In the name of Lenin they are one” (“Imennyam Lenina Unity”, 1968 )
- “The word of the contemporary” (“The word of the accessory”, 1974 )
Pieces
- “To the great land” (“To the great land”, 1948 )
- Blue Blood (Blue Blood, 1927 )
- “Lviv Stories” (“Lviv Opovidannya”, collection, 1948 )