Answer the following question: Facts: - imagesize: 220px - birth name: daniil alexandrovich german - genre: fiction - birth date: 01 january 1919 - name: daniil alexandrovich granin - occupation: engineer , soldier , writer - image: daniil alexandrovich granin.jpg - birth place: volyn , kursk , russia , ussr - nationality: russian - alma mater: leningrad polytechnical institute Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of daniil granin .
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daniil alexandrovich granin -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- born january 1 , 1919 -rrb- , original family name german -lrb- -rrb- , is an author born in the former soviet union .granin started writing in the 1930s , while he was still an engineering student at the leningrad polytechnical institute .after graduation , granin began working as a senior engineer at an energy laboratory , and shortly after war broke out , he volunteered to fight as a soldier .one of the first widely praised works of granin was a short story about graduate students titled '' variant vtoroi '' -lrb- the second variant -rrb- , which was published in the journal zvezda in 1949 .granin had continued to study engineering and work as a technical writer before he achieved literary success , thanks to his '' iskateli '' -lrb- '' those who seek '' , 1955 -rrb- , a novel inspired by his career in engineering .this book was about the overly bureaucratic soviet system , which tended to stifle new ideas .granin served as a board member of the leningrad union of writers , and he was a winner of many medals and honors including the state prize for literature in 1978 and hero of socialist labor 1989 .he has continued to write in the post-soviet era .