Vladislav Krapivin
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Vladislav Petrovich Krapivin (Russian: Владислав Петрович Крапивин; 14 October 1938 – 1 September 2020) was a Russian children's books writer.[1]
Biography
Vladislav Petrovich Krapivin was born in the city of Tyumen on 14 October 1938. He received a degree in journalism from the Ural State University. In the course of his studies, he started working at the newspaper "Evening Sverdlovsk", followed by several years in the periodical "Ural Pathfinder". Krapivin has been a full-time writer since 1965. His first book, The Voyage of Orion (Рейс "Ориона"), was printed by the Sverdlovsk Publishing House in 1962. Over the course of his literary career, Krapivin became the author of more than 200 publications, many of which have been translated.
In 1961 Vladislav Krapivin founded a youth group called "Caravel" with the main activities for the kids that of journalism, fencing, sailing and all things maritime. "Caravel" exists to this day, led by its former graduates.[citation needed]
On 1 September 2020, Vladislav Krapivin died at the age of 81 in Yekaterinburg, where he had lived since 2013. He had been in hospital with pneumonia since 10 August, before his condition deteriorated.[2]
Awards and honors
- Laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize; literary award Aelita; the Arkady Gaidar Award and many others. Orders: Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Order of Friendship of Peoples. Medals: "For Valiant Labor", awarded by VLKSM (KomSoMol). Honorary citizen of Yekaterinburg.
- Asteroid 407243 Krapivin, discovered by Timur Kryachko at the Zelenchukskaya Station in 2009, was named in his honor.[1] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 14 November 2016 (M.P.C. 102259).[3]
Bibliography
References
- ^ a b "407243 Krapivin (2009 WQ100)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
- ^ Умер писатель Владислав Крапивин
- ^ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
- ^ Budrys, Algis (September 1968). "Galaxy Bookshelf". Galaxy Science Fiction. pp. 187–193.
- ^ http://www.rbby.ru/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Krapivin.pdf [bare URL PDF]
External links
- Official website (in Russian)
- Vladislav Krapivin's LiveJournal (in Russian)
- Krapivin in Moshkov's Library (in Russian)
- Vladislav Krapivin: I Still Want to Write and not to Idle My Life Away
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- 1938 births
- 2020 deaths
- Russian children's writers
- Soviet children's writers
- Soviet male writers
- 20th-century Russian male writers
- Soviet science fiction writers
- Russian science fiction writers
- Soviet fantasy writers
- Russian fantasy writers
- Russian speculative fiction critics
- Pavel Bazhov Prize recipients
- Ural State University alumni