In the postwar years he worked for the newspaper
"Soviet Volyn". In 1949 he published the first collection of short stories
"Guests from Volhynia"; later, after graduation, Dimarov will publish a number of collections of short stories. From 1950 to 1951, Anatoly Dimarov studied at the
Maxim Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow, later transferred and graduated from the
Lviv Pedagogical Institute in 1951-1953.
After graduating, he worked as an editor in Ukrainian publishing houses. He worked as an editor in the newspapers "Soviet Ukraine", "Soviet Volyn", worked as editor in chief of the Lviv regional publishing house "Soviet Writer". Dimarov' s first novels appeared in the late 1950s, and in the following years he published a whole galaxy of successful novels, including "His Family" (1956), "Idol" (1961), "And there will be people" (three books, 1964, 1966, 1968) and Pain and Anger (two books, 1974, 1980), etc. For the second volume of "Pain and Anger" Dimarov was awarded the
Shevchenko Prize. In his works, the writer was not afraid to depict the times of
forced collectivization, the
Holodomor of 1932-1933, and mass repression — segments of history that were severely taboo.
But the editors and the censors worked skillfully: they crossed out whole paragraphs, cut off the story lines and deleted a few chapters. The novelist's books have been translated into Russian, English, French and many other foreign languages. For 65 years, Anatoliy Dimarov was a member of the
Writers' Union of Ukraine, elected a member of the council and a member of the Presidium of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine. His work has been praised for high literary awards and government awards.
Republishing Only in 2004 Dimarov managed to republish the novel Pain and Anger in its original form in the Kyiv publishing house Ukraine, and in 2006 in the original version the novel And there will be people in the Kyiv publishing house Phoenix was republished. This is the first complete edition of both novels to return chapters deleted by Russian-Soviet censors. The Mystery of the Black Crow The novel "The Black Crow" is based on a true story from the life of Ukrainian Hryhoriy Nudha, a former Kolyma prisoner with whom Anatoliy Dimarov befriended in Lviv. Anatoly Dimarov recalled that he had been writing the novel for only a month and with "an indescribable feeling of free, unfettered fear of flight." The novel itself was written in the 1960s, but due to various circumstances it was published only in the late 1980s. When Dimarov finished writing the novel The Black Crow in the 1960s, he was convinced that the novel, in which he portrayed the courageous Grigory Nudga in the image of Junior Lieutenant Kalinka, would be published in both Kyiv and Moscow in Russian translation in the magazine. The printing of the novel "Black Crow" has already been approved and typed for publication in the magazine "Fatherland", the author even read the pages, and positive reviews of the manuscript of the novel were written by M. Ignatenko and P. Zagrebelny. However, due to censorship, the novel was never published in the "Fatherland", all that was published is a small excerpt in 1962 in "Literary Ukraine", which was published through the lobbying of Pavel Zagrebelny. For more than twenty years this novel lay on the desk and only after more than twenty years in the drawer, in 1989 in Melbourne the novel "Incombustible Bump", already called "Black Crow", was published in English translated by Yuri Tkach in the collection In Stalin's Shadow (Melbourne, 1989). And only a year after its publication in English, the novel finally appeared in Ukrainian in 1990, when a version of the Australian collection was published by the Kyiv publishing house
Dnipro in its own collection In the Shadows of Stalin published in the series Novels and Tales. == Awards and honours ==