Anton chekhov works

Nationality: Russian
Place of Birth: Taganrog, Russia
Place of Death: Badenweiler, Germany

Genre(s): Plays; Fiction

Table of Contents:

Personal Information
Career
Writings
Media Adaptations
Biography Part I
Biography Part II
Further Readings About the Author

Career: Dramatist, short story writer, and novelist; during his early career, worked as a physician, beginning 1884; editor of the literary section of Russkaya mysl, 1903; founder of two rural schools.

Award(s):

Pushkin Prize, Division of Russian Language and Letters of the Academy of Sciences, 1888, for collection of stories, V sumerkakh (In the Twilight); elected Honorary Academician of the Pushkin Section of Belle Lettres of the Academy of Sciences, 1899; awarded Order of St.

Stanislav for work in the cause of national education, 1899; Griboedov Prize, Society of Dramatic Writers and Opera Composers, for Tri syostry: Drama v chetyryokh deystviyakh (The Three Sisters: A Drama in Four Acts).