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Entries / Panova V.F. (1905-1973), writer

Panova V.F. (1905-1973), writer


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PANOVA Vera Fedorovna (1905-1973, Leningrad), writer, script writer. She received no formal education. In 1940-41 lived in the town of Pushkin, including a month under German occupation. Her final move to Leningrad after the World War II coincided with the literary success of the story The Train (1946; Stalin Prize, 1947), strengthened by the novel Kruzhilikha (1947; Stalin Prize, 1948). The interest in the subject of children is developed in the story Time Walked: A Summer to Remember (1955; the film of the same name was shot in 1960 to the script, written by Panova in co-operation with director G.N. Danelia and I.V. Talankin; Crystal Globe of Twelfth International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary, 1960), short stories Valya, Volodya (about lives of Leningrad children, evacuated from the besieged city) and others. Contributed a lot to Leningrad Department of Soviet Writer Publishing House, where the majority of Panova's works were published in separate editions; collaborated with Leningrad theatres that staged Snowstorm, It's not over yet and other Panova's plays. The author of the drama Tredyakovsky and Volynsky, devoted to an episode of Petersburg period of Russian history (published in Neva journal in 1968), other works on historical subject and pieces of biographical prose. Stalin Prize (1950). She lived at 7 Field of Mars and in the House of Creativity in Komarovo. Buried at Komarovskoe Cemetery. The son of Panova, B.B. Vakhtin (1930-1981) was an orientalist and writer, member of Gorozhane (City-Dwellers) Literary Group.

References: Нинов А. А. Вера Панова: Жизнь. Творчество. Современники. Л., 1980; Воспоминания о Вере Пановой. М., 1988; Юрьева С. М. Вера Панова: Страницы жизни: К биогр. писательницы. Tenafly (N. Y.), 1993.

D. N. Cherdakov.

Persons
Danelia Georgy Nikolaevich
Panova Vera Fedorovna
Talankin Igor Vasilievich
Vakhtin Boris Borisovich

Addresses
The Field of Mars/Saint Petersburg, city, house 7

Bibliographies
Нинов А. А. Вера Панова: Жизнь. Творчество. Современники. Л., 1980
Воспоминания о Вере Пановой. М., 1988
Юрьева С. М. Вера Панова: Страницы жизни: К биогр. писательницы. Tenafly (N.Y.), 1993

The subject Index
Soviet Writer, the Leningrad Department of the Publishing House
Neva, journal
Citizens, Literary Group