PANOVA Vera Feodorovna

Panova, Vera Feodorovna (1905 - 1973), novelist, playwright, screenwriter.
Born March 7 (20 NS) in Rostov-na-Donu. In early childhood, losing his father, Panova lived a difficult childhood labor. To educate ourselves, from his youth wrote poetry.

. In 17 years she worked in the editorial Rostov newspaper Labor Don.

. In 1926 - 27 under the pseudonym "Faith Veltman" wrote satires, as the lead department feuilleton in the newspaper "Soviet South.

. Until the mid 1930's worked in children's newspapers and magazines in Rostov ( "Lenin's Grandchildren", "Fire", "Horn").

. In 1940 Panova moved to Leningrad, where after the war was evacuated to Perm, where she worked in newspapers and on radio.

. The first novel written in 1945 - "Family Pirozhkova" (in the new edition 1959 - "Evdokia")
. During the war, Panova flew in the military hospital train several flights to the front, the impressions from which the factual basis for the story "Satellites," saw the light in 1946 (the USSR State Prize, 1947).

. In 1947 the novel "Kruzhilikha" on the big people in the Ural Plant of the war years, a lively discussion.

. In subsequent years Panova wrote several novels: "Bright Shore" (1949), "sentimental novel" (1958), "The Seasons" (1953).

. In 1955 the novel "Serge" opens the cycle of works Panova of children: "Valya", "Volodya," "A boy and a girl", etc.

. In mid-1960 is drawn to the genre of historical novel
. Scenes "Legends of Olga" and "Legends of Theodosius" taken from the recorded history of Kievan Rus. In the story "Who is dying" (1965) describes the end of the reign of Vasily III. The cycle of historical novels "The Faces of the dawn" (1966).

A special place in the work Panova took drama: "Snowstorm" (1957), "Seeing the White Nights" (1961), "It is not night" (1965) and others. Based on the author's drama and scripts Panova delivered films: "Sergei", "Evdokia", "Leap Year", "Mercy Train", "Early in the morning," "A boy and a girl", etc.. Panova died in 1973 in Leningrad.