Pavel Nilin
17 January [o.s. January 4] 1908 – 2 October 1981
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.
