Anastasia Orlova: "I paint with words"

Writer Anastasia Orlova on the questions how to wear pantyhose without anxiety and labor, how to call fingers by name or how to go for a walk on a rainy day with a sense of happiness inside answers gives verses.

Search for inspiration is helped by simple observation of children, pigeons (rhyme "Lali-guli"), cats, dogs. But as the wife and mother of two sons Anastasia admits that she lives with a sense of lack of time. After all, she has to do household chores, give herself time, children and at the same time travel a lot, meet with readers and various creative people.

Writing

Recently, actress Julia Peresild delivered a charity play "Stichovarene", which was held in Moscow on various venues. The play was based on works by three authors: Anastasia Orlova, Natalia Volkova and Maria Rubasova.

Anastasia Orlova began writing poetry for children when she had her own kids, but before that she lived with the feeling that poetry was parallel to her. Thanks to her mother, Nastya learned at four years and fell in love reading. Especially with her no one was engaged, the girl approached my mother and asked: "This is what letter?", And her favorite book was Pushkin's poem "The Tale of Tsar Saltan."

Favorite children's poems and fairy tales

Anastasia Orlova remembers how she read "Saltana" out loud to her grandmother, who was sitting next to her, peeling potatoes and listening attentively to her granddaughter. In general, according to the writer, her childhood was free, free, spacious. At the grandmother's garden she was allowed to lay a litter and read books, she could climb to the attic and look at children's notebooks, albums preserved from my mother's school days.

My favorite books in childhood were still Mukha-Tsokotukha by Korney Chukovsky, Stupid Horse by G. Levin, poems by Grigoriev, Kharms, Yasnov, Boroditskaya, stories by Yuri Kazakov, Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury, and so on.

Biography of the writer

Orlov was born Anastasia in 1981 in Volzhsky, Volgograd Region. When she was nine years old, her first poems were published in the children's magazine "Tram". This edition was the most beloved, and although the 1990s were hard for Russia, the magazine was published very colorful and kind. When the girl ventured, she sent her poem there and it was printed along with a beautiful illustration - Nastya was in seventh heaven with happiness. Anastasia then wrote verses for a long time, but gradually the writing came to naught and returned only when she had her little ones.

Children from birth perceive poetry, the writer believes. It is not necessary to put a child and read to him. It is possible for mother, father or grandmothers and grandfathers to learn by heart the verse and sentence it by talking to the child. To iron his back, head, do a light massage of hands, feet and recite, for example, Marshak or Barto. It is not worthwhile to impose poetry and literature on children, they should easily perceive it with the help of games, and then, having matured, the child will easily approach classical literature and even fall in love with it.

Anastasiya Orlova comes to the meeting with the children, in advance prepared for the specific questions that they ask. They are interested in how old she is and whether she paints her hair. Toddlers worry about the number of butterflies living on the planet, and the children are more interested in how poetry begins and what tablets the writer drinks to memorize a huge number of poems by heart. They are also interested in the financial side of writing. Apparently, they once and for all want to decide for themselves whether it is worthwhile to make any efforts for this case.

Presidential Prize

The poet Anastasia Orlova was awarded the Presidential Prize for her contribution to children's literature. President Vladimir Putin personally presented the writer with the award, and the adviser to the head of state for culture, Vladimir Tolstoy, said that the candidature of A. Orlova was unanimously supported by all the participants in the selection.

Anastasia was worried about this, because she did not know what she would say in her return speech, and decided to rely on inspiration. It came just in time, first she thanked Vladimir Vladimirovich, parents, friends and mentors, and then told that recently her reader had sent a video, where she and her daughter were playing "finger-peas", "cam-snail" and "apples" -paces. " For Anastasia this was a moment of happiness, pure joy, she realized that everything that does for children and teenagers is only for such moments, since all the good comes from childhood.

Future plans

Currently, a young writer, mother and wife are busy meeting in Yaroslavl, Moscow. Recently she visited Suzdal, where the premiere of the cartoon film "Apple-heels" on her book was held. Cartoon turned out touching. Director Maria Sosnina did an amazing job.

Soon there will be a new book of the writer "Small-Small Wind" with illustrations of Marina Kutyavina, on which they worked together. In her childhood, Nastya liked to draw a dance of little men, and now she paints with words.

Anastasia Orlova writes her poems from the heart. There is only one glance, thrown at the face of this woman, and immediately you want to have such people as much as possible.

List of books by An. Orlova:

• «Apple heels».
• "Seasons".
• "Babes at the hen".
• "The ABC in verse."
• "Everything started with the wheel."
• "The first book of the baby."

She is also a member of the Writers' Union of Moscow.