In the history of letters, Vladimir Korolenko is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Vladimir Korolenko as Ukrainian-born Russian writer.
Vladimir Korolenko was born at Zhytomyr in 1853. His recorded nationality is Russia. He was educated at Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology.
The nineteenth century was the age of the serialised novel and mass literacy; writers reached audiences of a size never seen before.
He worked as writer, autobiographer and literary critic.
The writing is recorded in Russian and Polish.
A writer's real subject usually becomes visible only across the whole body of work.
That the work was written from Russia matters: language, censorship and the reach of a publishing industry decide which books travel and which stay local.
Vladimir Korolenko died in 1921, aged 68. The books remain, which is the only durable form a writing life takes.
