Fyodor Panfyorov

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

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.

[1] 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.

[1] Panfjorov's main work is the extensive novel Bruski, describing the collectivization of agriculture.

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.