Complex sentence: One of the first widely praised works of Granin was a short story about graduate students, titled "Variant vtoroi" (The second variant) and published in the journal "Zvezda" in 1949.
Split into simpler sentences: One of the first widely praised works of Granin was a short story about graduate students, titled "Second Varient". It was published in the journal "Zvezda" in 1949.