Lidin (English spelling) Vladimir Germanovich Lidin

Russian and Soviet author. Graduated from the Faculty of Law at Moscow University. He began publishing works in 1915, mainly depicting the lives of intellectuals. In short story collections such as "The Sea and the Mountain" (1922) and "The Daily Life of a Mouse" (1923), he focused on small people, and in "The North Wind" (1925) he portrayed adventurers. He is best known for his long novels "The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier" (1932), set in Paris, and "Great, or Silent" (1933), which depicts a reindeer farm in the Far East. After World War II, he wrote works such as "Two Lives."

[Takashi Egawa]

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ロシア・ソ連の作家。モスクワ大学法学部卒業。1915年から作品を発表、おもに知識人の生活を描いた。『海と山』（1922）、『鼠(ねずみ)の日常』（1923）、などの短編集で小さな人間に注目、『北風』（1925）では冒険家たちを描いた。パリを舞台にした『無名戦士の墓』（1932）、極東のトナカイ飼育場を描いた『偉大な、あるいは静かな』（1933）の長編が有名。第二次世界大戦後は『二つの人生』など。

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