Author: Pavel Nilin
Alternate names: Pavel Filippovich Nilin; P.F.Nilin; Павел Филиппович Нилин; П.Ф.Нилин; Павел Нилин
Born: 17 January [o.s. January 4] 1908
Died: 2 October 1981
Bio: Pavel Filippovich Nilin (Павел Филиппович Нилин) was a Soviet writer, journalist and playwright, best known for a novel called A Man Goes Uphill (1936), adapted to the big screen under the title A Great Life, for which he, as a scriptwriter, received the Stalin Prize in 1941. Highly popular was his 1956 novel Cruelty.