Daniil Granin died

The writer Daniil Granin in St. Petersburg died at the 99th year of his life, Interfax reports citing a source in the city’s medical circles. According to him, Granin has been in the intensive care unit of one of the city hospitals for the past few days. Shortly before the death, it was connected to the apparatus of artificial ventilation of the lungs.

“Daniil Alexandrovich died on Wednesday night,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

There is no information about the date of farewell and the funeral yet.

Daniil Granin (real name German) was born on January 1, 1919 in the family of forester Alexander German. In 1940 he graduated from the Electromechanical Department of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, worked at the Kirov Plant.

He fought in the division of the people's militia, then in the tank forces, was the commander of a company of heavy tanks. After the war, he worked at Lenenergo, was a member of the editorial board of Roman-Gazeta magazine.

Granin began to be published in 1949. The author of the novels “Seekers”, “I am going to pile”, “Zubble”, essay “This Strange Life” and “Fear”, the story “Beautiful Uta”, “Garden of Stones”, “Month of Major”, “Rain in a strange city”.

In 2012, Granin’s novel “My Lieutenant” became the winner of the National Literary Prize “Big Book”.