Konstantin Dmitrievich Vorobyov (; September 24, 1919, Nizhny Reutets â March 2, 1975, Vilnius) was a Soviet writer, a War hero and a major exponent of the lieutenant prose movement in the Soviet war literature. Vorobyov, who was born in the Kursk region, Soviet Russia but spent most of his life in Vilnius, Lithuania (then in the USSR; also his death place), wrote 10 short novels (best known is Slain Near Moscow, 1963) and 30 short stories, many of which were either unpublished in his lifetime or suffered greatly from massive censorial cuts. According to the poet, critic and literature historian Dmitry Bykov, Vorobyov was "the most American of all Russian writers, a strange mix of Hemingway and Capote".
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- And Now Enters the Giant (Vot prishol velikan, ÃÂþàÿÃÂøÃÂõû òõûøúðý, 1971)
- Genka, Brother of Mine (Genka, brat moi, ÃÂõýúð, ñÃÂðàüþù, 1969)
- ...And to All of Your Kin (...I vsemu rodu tvoyemu, ...àòÃÂõüàÃÂþôàÃÂòþõüÃÂ, 1975, unfinished)
- The Scream (Krik, ÃÂÃÂøú, 1962)
- In One Breath (Odnim dykhaniyev, ÃÂôýøü ôÃÂÃÂ
ðýøõü, 1948, published in 1967)
- How Much Is Joy in Ratikny (Pochom v Rakitnom radosti, ÃÂþÃÂÃÂü ò àðúøÃÂýþü ÃÂðôþÃÂÃÂø, 1964)
- Slain Near Moscow (Ubity pod Moskvoi, ãñøÃÂàÿþô ÃÂþÃÂúòþù, 1963)
- Here We Are, My Lord!.. (Eto mi, Gospodi!.., ÃÂÃÂþ üÃÂ, óþÃÂÿþôø!.., 1986, posthumously)
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