Andrei Usachev - children's writer, poet and prose writer

Andrei Usachev is a children's writer, poet and prose writer. He appeared in literary circles in difficult times, when all the good poems were created and the songs are all written. Another writer in his place would long ago have gone to the bottom of literature: to create criticism for children's literature or advertising. And Andrei Usachev set to work hard. Without a break he traveled to editorial offices, worked on television and radio, wrote songs for productions and performances. And everything turned out well for him.

Andrei Usachev: biography

Andrei Alekseevich Usachev was born on July 5, 1958 in Moscow. The poet's father is a worker, his mother was a history teacher. According to the family legend, Usachev's grandfather was familiar with Nadezhda Krupskaya and saw Hitler live. The poet began writing poetry as a teenager in a vocal-instrumental ensemble, where he played drums. After school, Andrei Usachev entered the Institute in Moscow to study electronic technology, but after 4 years he dropped out of school. After the army, the poet was enrolled in the philological faculty of the Kalinin State University, which he graduated in 1987. His thesis was on the theme: Poetics of Poems for the Children of Daniil Kharms.

In 1985, the author began to publish, thanks to the magazine "Murzilka". After that, Usachev collaborated with the "Pioneer", "Funny Pictures", "Crocodile"; For them he wrote satires, humoresques, poems. In addition, Andrei Usachev worked as a watchman, washer dishwasher. He was also a janitor and a stage worker.

Andrey Usachev: poetry

In 1990, thanks to Eduard Uspensky, the poet published the first children's poetic collection "If you throw a rock up", for which he received the first prize at the contest of young writers. A year later he joined the Writers' Union. For several years Usachev worked as a screenwriter and a leading program for children "Merry Quampaign", "Kvarete", "Flying Sofa". Very quickly, Usachev became a popular author in Russian children's literature. In 1994 he wrote a poetic book "Pesushkov's Dreams", in 1996 - "The Magic Alphabet", in 1998 - "Fairy-tale alphabet", in 1999 - "The Planet of Cats" and "The Box", in 2003 - "A rustling song "," Curious Barbarian "and" There was a bug along the street ". He also has collections of fairy tales and fiction for children "Clever dog Sonia" - 1996, "Fairy tale aeronautics" - 2003, "Orange camel" - 2002, etc.

Usachev's literature and other fields of activity

In Russia, released more than 100 children's books Usachev. Two of his books were published in Israel in Hebrew, two books - in Ukraine, two - in Moldova. He is also published in Japan, Poland, Serbia. 5 books by Andrei Usachev recommended the Russian Ministry of Education for teaching in schools as textbooks.

Music for the writer's poetry was composed by famous composers: Theodore Efimov, Maxim Dunaevsky, Pavel Ovsyannikov. To individual poems, Andrei Usachev wrote the music himself. More than 50 children's songs with music and poetry were heard on TV. Twenty audio cassettes with his tales and songs were released.

In addition to prose and poetry, he wrote for the puppet theater. Independently and with other authors created more than 10 plays. They are shown in twenty Russian theaters. Usachev gave a lot of time to television. In 1995-96, he released more than one hundred programs. At the studios "STV", "Soyuzmultfilm" 15 cartoons were filmed. One of them is full-length.

Cartoons and awards Усачева

According to his scenarios, different country studios shot dozens of cartoons, as well as a feature film from 40 series "Draco and the Company".

A. Usachev is the author of five training books recommended by the Russian Ministry of Education. His creations have been translated into several languages, in total there are 3 million.

Usachev also wrote popular plays for children's theater, New Year's scenarios. In addition, he paid much attention to the songs: now more than ten of his collections have been released. Andrey Usachev became a laureate of the festival "Golden Ostap" (2005), "Book of the Year" competitions (for the product "333 cats") and "Petya and the Wolf-2006" for the best work for children.