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Vasily Grossman (1905–1964)

Author of Life and Fate

Includes the names: Vasil GROSSMAN, Vasily Grossman, Vasili Grossman, Vasily Grossman, Vasily Grossman, Vasily Grossman, Vasily Grossman, Vasily Grossman, GROSSMAN VASILY, Vasilij Grosman ... (see complete list), Vasily Grossman, Vassily GROSSMAN, Vasiliy Grossman, Wasilij Grossman, Vasilii Grossman, Vasili Grossmann, Grossman Vassili, Vasiley Grossman, Vasilij Grossman, Vassili Grossman, Wassili Grossman, Vasilii Grossman, Wassili Grossmann, Vasilij Grossmann, Wassilij Grossman, Wassilij Grossmann, Vassilij Grossmann, В.С. Гроссман, ואסילי גרוסמן, Vasilii Semenovich Grossman, Vasily; transla... Grossman, Vassili Semenovich Grossman, Vasillii Semenovich Grossman, Vasiliĭ Semenovich Grossman, Vasiliï Semionovich Grossman, Wassili Semionowitsch Grossman, Василий Гроссман, Василий Гроссман, Wassilij Semjonowitsch Grossmann, Vasiliï Semionovich Grossman, Василий Семёнович Гроссман

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Works by Vasily Grossman
Life and Fate 2,781 copies, 78 reviews
A Writer at War. Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945 887 copies, 18 reviews
Everything Flows 715 copies, 34 reviews
Stalingrad 385 copies, 10 reviews
The Road 342 copies, 14 reviews
An Armenian Sketchbook 192 copies, 5 reviews
The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry 115 copies, 4 reviews
The Treblinka hell: photographic album of martyrs, heroes, and… 47 copies, 2 reviews
Brieven aan mijn moeder 9 copies
La cagnetta 9 copies
Oeuvres 8 copies
The People Immortal 8 copies, 1 review
Eterno reposo y otras narraciones 7 copies
Fosforo 5 copies
Stalingrado: Crónicas desde el frente de batalla (Rústica) 4 copies
Tiergarten, Berlín 1945 (Rústica) 4 copies
Las buenas compañías 4 copies
La Madonna a Treblinka 3 copies
Die ||Kommissarin : Erzählung 3 copies, 1 review
Grossman-dagbøgerne 1941-1945 : i front mod tyskernes terror i… 2 copies
La route: Nouvelles (French Edition) 2 copies
Bem Hajam! – Apontamentos de Viagem à Arménia 2 copies
Mõned kurvad päevad : [jutustused] 2 copies
2007 2 copies
Que el bien os acompañe (Ensayo) (Spanish Edition) 2 copies
Несколько печальных дней Повести и… 2 copies, 1 review
Life and Fate (BBC Radio Adaptation) 2 copies, 1 review
Peur 1 copy
Stepan Koltšugin. romaan] / 3. [osa 1 copy
Road to victory; twelve tales of the Red army 1 copy
Stepan Koltšugin. romaan] / 1. [osa 1 copy
Elu ja saatus : romaan 1 copy
New Writing 2: Fall, 1936 1 copy
Forever Flowing 1 copy
Dies Volk ist unsterblich. 1 copy
HER ŞEY GEÇİP GİDER 1 copy
Избранное, 2 тома 1 copy
Kolchugin's Youth 1 copy
Stepan Koltšugin. romaan] / 2. [osa 1 copy
No Beautiful Nights 1 copy
Stjepan Koljčugin 1 copy
Жизнь и судьба : в трех книгах : [роман] :… 1 copy
За правое дело. Жизнь и судьба 6… 1 copy
מוטיבים יהודיים 1 copy
מוטיבים יהודיים 2 1 copy
Повесть. Рассказы. Очерки 1 copy
Рассказы. Повести (1931-1945) 1 copy
Zhizn' i sud'ba chast' pervaja (Russian Edition) 1 copy
Vasily Grossman from the Front Line 1 copy
L'Enfer de Treblinka: traduit du russe 1 copy
Življenje in usoda 1 copy
Ya¿am ve Yazg♯ł 1 copy
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Also by Vasily Grossman
The Penguin Book of Hell (Contributor) 103 copies, 1 review
Great Soviet Short Stories (Contributor) 70 copies
The Red Thread: 20 Years of NYRB Classics: A Selection (Contributor) 43 copies
Granta 145: Ghosts (Contributor) 33 copies, 3 reviews
Der Irrtum. Russische Erzählungen. (Contributor) 6 copies
De geschiedenis van een manuscript : over Vasili Grossman, Leven en Lot (Author) 2 copies
Moderne russische Erzähler (Author) 2 copies
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Canonical name
Grossman, Vasily
Legal name
Grossman, Vasily Semyonovich
Гроссман, Василий Семёнович
Other names
GROSSMAN, Vasily
Date of birth
1905-12-12
Date of death
1964-09-14
Burial location
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Troyekurovskoye Cemetery Moscow, Russia
Gender
male
Nationality
USSR
Russia
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Birthplace
Berdichev, Ukraine, Russian Empire
Place of death
Moscow, Soviet Union
Cause of death
Places of residence
Moscow, Soviet Union
Geneva, Switzerland
Kiev, Ukraine, Soviet Union
Education
Moscow State University
Occupations
author
journalist
war correspondent
chemical engineer
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Red Star (Krasnaya Zvezda)
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Red Banner of Labor
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Short biography
Born in the Ukraine in 1905, Vasilly Grossman published his first novel 'Stepan Gluchkauf 'in 1933. Grossman was Jewish and his place of birth was one of the largest Jewish communities in Eastern Europe. Grossman is most notable for his work as a journalist during WWII and his eyewitness accounts of the fall of Stalingrad, the fall of Berlin and the Holocaust. He published the first account of a German death camp written by a journalist. He went on to publish a novel about Stalingrad in 1952 called "For a Just Cause" and in 1960 "Life and Fate".
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