Maxim Gorky

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1869-03-28

Deathday 1936-06-18 (67 years old)

Place of Birth Nizhny Novgorod, USSR

Also Known As Максим Горький, Maxime Gorki, Maximo Gorki, Alexis Pechkov, Alekseï Pechkov, Алексей Пешков

Maxim Gorky

Biography

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (1868–1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (Russian: Максим Горький), was a Russian writer and political activist. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his success as an author, he travelled widely across the Russian Empire changing jobs frequently, experiences which would later influence his writing. Gorky's most famous works are a short story collection 'Sketches and Stories' (1899), plays 'The Philistines' (1901), 'The Lower Depths' (1902) and 'Children of the Sun' (1905), poem 'The Song of the Stormy Petrel' (1901), autobiographical trilogy 'My Childhood', 'In the World', 'My Universities' (1913–1923), and novel 'Mother' (1906). Though Gorky himself judged some of these works as failures, most are now seen as masterpieces. Some of his less-known post-revolutionary works such as the cycles 'Fragments from My Diary' (1924) and 'Stories of 1922–1924' (1925), and novels 'The Artamonov Business' (1925) and 'The Life of Klim Samgin' (1925–1936), Gorky himself was more proud of; the latter is considered Gorky's masterpiece and sometimes being viewed by critics as a modernist work. Unlike his pre-revolutionary writings (known for their "anti-psychologism"), these differ with an ambivalent portrayal of the Russian Revolution and "unmodern interest to human psychology" (as noted by D. S. Mirsky).

Known For

Writer

Kinder der Sonne

as Adaptation

2023
Kinder der Sonne

as Theatre Play

2022
The Lower Depths

as Original Story

2021
The Cure

as Novel

2014
2013
Boles

as Story

2011
Ilaingan

as Novel

2004
The Philistines

as Original Story

2004
Stormy Petrel

as Story

1995
Summerfolk

as Author

1990
Mother

as Novel

1989
Eccentrics

as Author

1987
Without Sun

as Writer

1986
1985
Children of the Sun

as Theatre Play

1984
Malva

as Original Story

1984
Maa

as Original Story

1983
Vassa

as Writer

1980
Falošný peniaz

as Theatre Play

1980
Vassa Železnovová

as Theatre Play

1978
Enemies

as Writer

1978
Meštiaci

as Theatre Play

1976
Summer Guests

as Writer

1974
Enemies

as Writer

1974
Matka

as Novel

1973
1973
A Man Before His Time

as Theatre Play

1973
The Last Ones

as Novel

1972
The Lower Depths

as Theatre Play

1971
1970
Bývalí ľudia

as Short Story

1970
Jegor Bulyčov

as Theatre Play

1970
Vassa Železnovová

as Theatre Play

1970
Shake-Up

as Story

1969
Forest

as Short Story

1969
1968
Jegor Bulyčov

as Theatre Play

1968
Li-ittle!

as Original Story

1968
1968
Across Rus'

as Writer

1967
1967
Dachniki

as Writer

1967
Ihmisiä elämän pohjalla

as Original Story

1966
Onde a Terra Começa

as Original Story

1965
The Philistines

as Author

1963
Appassionata

as Short Story

1963
1962
1962
Měšťáci

as Theatre Play

1959
Foma Gordeyev

as Novel

1959
1958
Měšťáci

as Theatre Play

1957
The Lower Depths

as Theatre Play

1956
The Mother

as Novel

1956
Mother

as Novel

1956
Children of the Sun

as Screenplay

1953
Foes

as Novel

1953
The Barbarians

as Writer

1953
1952
1946
1941
Мать

as Novel

1941
1940
1939
1938
Enemies

as Author

1936
1930
Cain and Artem

as Short Story

1926
Mother

as Novel

1926
1921
Souls on the Road

as Original Story

1920
Mother

as Novel