Antonov Sergey

Born May 3 (16 NS), 1915. in Petrograd in the family of an engineer. After leaving school he entered the Leningrad Institute of Road. After graduating in 1938, began working as a civil engineer.

In 1944, Antonov published his first poems in 1947 published the first prose work - the story "Spring".

The first collection of short stories came out in 1950 - along the road cars, in the same year, the second book - "Peaceful People". After that Antonov is a professional writer, all his time giving creativity. The main theme of his creative life has become a modern village. Of particular fame earned him the novel "Poddubenskie Limericks" (1950), . in the 1950's was written story "Rain", . has affected the acute social lroblemy not often raised in the literature of the time, . story "It was in Penkovo (which later was filmed),


. In 1960, were published the story "Empty Flight", . "Alenka", . "Broken ruble" and "Forbs", in 1970 - "Royal silver coin", . collection of short stories "Russian character", . novels and short stories "Silver Wedding" and "Three heroes", . 1980 - 90 - story "Vaska" and "P.",
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Antonov owns a collection of articles "From the first person. Stories about writers, books and words "(1973). Antonov lives and works in St. Petersburg.