Fyodor Ivanovich Panfyorov (Russian: Фёдор Иванович Панфёров; 2 October 1896 – 10 September 1960) was a Soviet writer.

Life and career

Fyodor Panfjorov was born into a poor peasant family. Due to a lack of funds, he had to leave his studies at the Volski teacher's seminar. After the October revolution, he worked in the editorial office of a local newspaper, in the engagement committee of the Russian Communist Party (b) and in the agricultural commune he founded. His first published works of fiction appeared in 1920. In 1926, Panfyorov joined the Communist Party. From 1924 to 1931 he worked as an editor of the Krestjanski zhurnal (Peasant Journal), and from 1931 until his death 1960, at short intervals, as the editor-in-chief of the '' Oktyabr'' literary magazine. In the 1920s, he served as the head of the Association of Proletarian Writers of Russia and from 1934 as a member of the board of the

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. In the 1930s and 1950s, Panfyorov was also a representative of the

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. Panfjorov's main work is the extensive novel ''Bruski'', describing the collectivization of agriculture. In time, the novel received the support of the authorities. After the Second World War, Panfyorov wrote a tendentious trilogy of novels Borba za mir ("Fight for peace", 1945–1947), V strane poveržennyh ("In the land of the vanquished", 1948), Bolšoje iskusstvo ("Great art", 1939), of which two for the first volume he received the Stalin Prize. He died on September 10, 1960 and was buried at the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Panfyorov, Fyodor 1896 births 1960 deaths Soviet writers 20th-century Russian novelists Socialist realism writers Soviet essayists Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Second convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union Third convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union Fourth convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union Fifth convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union Recipients of the USSR State Prize Recipients of the Order of the Red Star Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery