Yevgeny Ivanovich Nosov
A remarkable Russian writer, Hero of Socialist Labor, winner of many literary prizes, and an Honorary citizen of Kursk. Yevgeny Ivanovich Nosov was born on January 15, 1925, in the village of Tolmachevo near Kursk. His parents lived in the city, where Yevgeny studied at school No 9. He spent his holidays with his grandfather in Tolmachev, being brought up “simultaneously in two environments.
In 1943, after finishing the 8th grade, he went to the front. He served as a soldier-gunner in the army of Marshal K. K. Rokossovsky. Nosov participated in the crossing of the Dnieper, took Minsk, and liberated Poland. Wounded in the last days of the war on the outskirts of Konigsberg he returned to Kursk. In 1945, after graduating from tenth grade, he went to Taldy-Kurgan (Kazakhstan) worked in a newspaper as a zincographer, retoucher and literary employee. Yet he was drawn to his homeland. Since 1951, Yevgeny Nosov has been an employee of the Kursk “Young Guard”. His work as a journalist brought him into contact with a great many different people, broadened his horizons, and instilled a sense of responsibility for his word.
In 1957 he published the first story for children “rainbow”, in 1958 — the first collection of short stories and novellas “on the fishing trail”. A fine sense of words, a sharpened, three-dimensional and plastic perception of the surrounding world, a love of detailed, unhurried and natural life and work in the bosom of nature immediately determined Nosov’s place in modern “village prose” as a traditionalist artist
The writer exposed the officials who were indifferent to everything except their own well-being and career through his writings. (“Don’t have ten rubles…”, “Potrava”, “Home for your mother”). When it became quite unbearable, he turned to journalism (“I will get off at the far station”, “with gray hair on my temples”, “What we are rebuilding”, “ Hills, hills…”), which caught readers attention.
In 2002, the writer was seriously ill and practically did not leave the house. His comrades persuaded him to go to the hospital, but he refused because the writer’s father died of the same disease — a perforated ulcer, after an operation. He believed that if it hadn’t been for the operation, his father might still have lived. On May 31, Nosov was admitted in the hospital and had an operation the next day. Twelve days later, he died and was buried at the Nikitskaya cemetery in Kursk
Despite the obstacles and barriers of censorship, E. Nosov always wrote the truth. This is the undying power of his novels and stories.
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