Abstract of the publishing house: Vasily Bykov (19243) prose writer, playwright, screenwriter, literary critic, publicist, public figure . People's Writer of Belarus, President of the Belarusian PEN Center, Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of the Lenin Prize, State Prizes of the USSR and the BSSR, many prestigious literary awards. The Creative Destiny of .. Bykova is an unsurpassed example of civic courage, nonconformism, Stoicism . In Soviet literature, he was the discoverer of the so-called trench truth about the war. The writer is the undoubted leader of the world’s “military” prose of the second half of the 20th century. This book is a memoir of the writer about the experience of almost 80 years of his eventful life. Vasily Bykov tells about the brightest pages of his biography, gives an assessment of the socio-political and cultural processes that took place before his eyes.