Socialist realism is an artistic direction in literature and art, which as a whole was the leading one in the USSR. As the name implies, it depicts the concept of human life in a socialist society. The basic 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 - Nikolai Dubov. During his life, he created about a dozen novels 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 representatives of the working class.
When the boy was 12 years old, he and his family moved to Ukraine. After graduating from school there, Nikolai Dubov worked at the factory for some time. Before the start of World War II, 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 having reached the front due to poor health, Nikolai Dubov returned to the factory again and worked there until 1944.
At the end of the war he moved to Kiev, where he spent the rest of his life. It was in Kiev that Dubov began his literary work. While working in newspapers and magazines, he simultaneously published his first works - the plays “On the Threshold” and “Morning Is Coming”, 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 Kiev, at that time he was 72 years old.
Bibliography
The first work of Dubov, written for the youth, was the story "On the Edge of the Earth", published in 1951. The main characters are four friends living in a small village in Altai. On behalf of one of them, a narrative is being conducted. Like all young people, these guys dream of adventure and great discoveries. This is exactly what Dubov's story tells.
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 - a 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 eponymous comedy film directed by Victor Eisymont, based on Dubov’s work, premiered.
One of Nikolai Dubov’s most popular novels is “Woe to One”, consisting of two novels, “The Orphan” and “The Hard Test”, which were written as independent works and were previously released separately, and in 1967 were combined into a novel-dilogy. The plot is based on the life of the boy Lesha (and later - the adult Alexei) Gorbachev, who cannot be called happy: because of the war he remained an orphan and ended up in an orphanage.
Writer Awards
The hero of our article is a laureate of two literary prizes. 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 novel for the young generation "On the edge of the earth."
In 1970, Dubov received the USSR State Prize for the novel “Woe to One”.