Background
Anatoly Andreyevich Ananyev was born on July 18, 1925, in Aulie-Ata (now Taraz in Kazakhstan). The hereditary peasant, the son of twice "dekulakized", he spent his childhood and youth in the South Urals.
Anatoly Andreyevich Ananyev was born on July 18, 1925, in Aulie-Ata (now Taraz in Kazakhstan). The hereditary peasant, the son of twice "dekulakized", he spent his childhood and youth in the South Urals.
After finishing the 7th grade he started working as an assembler apprentice at the cotton gin plant in Namangan. Then he entered an agricultural technical college specializing in "technical crops".
After finishing the 7th grade he started working as an assembler apprentice at the cotton gin plant in Namangan. In 1945, after the Battle of Kursk, he was discharged as a disabled person of group II. In a short while, he graduated the agricultural technical college and worked as an agronomist in a kolkhoz, and then in a regional land department.
In 1958 in Almaty were published first narratives of Ananyev starting his work as a writer. A distinguished author. His novel «Tanks Go in a Diamond» about the Battle of Kursk captured the great attention of readers. In 1993 he joined «The Letter of Forty-Two».
Anatoly Ananyev passed away on the 7th of December 2001 and was buried at Troyekurov Cemetery.
Collection of works in 4 voloumes
(Moscow, 1984—1985)
1984Collected works in 8 volumes
(1995—1998)
1995Selected works in 2 volumes
1977Vernensk stories
1958After War
1969Side Land
1970Lengths of Love
1972Never to Forget
1972The Main Road
1978Passages
1980Past Truths Reminder
1982Years Without War
1977The Ruriks Vocation
1996Tendentiousness, combined with a predilection for detailed verisimilitude, led to a pronounced publicism and at the same time a harsh realism of Ananiev's works, along with the works of G. Baklanov, Yu. Bondarev, and others who laid the foundations of the so-called literature of "trench truth".
Quotes from others about the person
V. Kazak notes "sinuous narrative" and "heavyweight style" of Ananyev's prose.