Biography of Boris Zakhoder, writer, poet, dramatist and translator

The name of the writer to whom this article is devoted is familiar to everyone. Verses and stories of this author were read by Soviet children. His books were republished many times. They have become classics of children's literature and are popular with young readers today. The topic of our article is the biography of Boris Zakhoder. Also we will talk about little-known facts concerning the work of this remarkable writer.

Biography

Boris Zakhoder is known in Russia primarily as a children's poet. However, he was a very multi-faceted personality.

The love of literature by Boris Vladimirovich took possession in his early childhood. The future writer was born in an intelligent family, in which books were treated with great honor. Biography of Boris Zakhoder began in one of the small towns of Moldova. Later, he left his hometown and spent most of his life in the capital.

According to the poet's recollections, in his childhood he changed school many times. Then I studied in one or another higher school. And at the age of twenty he entered the Literary Institute. And in three years the war began ...

Poems for children

The first poetic works Zahoder published a year after the demobilization. They left, however, in one of the children's magazines under a pseudonym. Although before this important event, he had already written poetry on military topics.

Biography of Boris Zakhoder is interesting primarily due to the fact that reading the most famous of his works creates the impression that the author of them is a very carefree person. It is difficult to imagine that the creator of the cycle of children's cheerful counters is a participant in two wars: the Soviet-Finnish and the Patriotic. Nevertheless, already in the second half of the forties there was published a children's poem "Sea Battle". Little is known about the military poetry of this author.

The poet, prose writer and playwright

The works of Boris Zakhoder are very unlike each other. And it may even seem that they were written by different people. Everyone knows the cheerful poem "Harmful cat". But there is also a more complex poem "Why Do not Trees Go".

For children, in addition to poems, Zakhoder also wrote fairy tales: from under his pen came the "Gray Star", "The Hermit and the Rose" and others. He was also a playwright and translator. In puppet theaters for children, plays were staged on his plays. And the works of foreign children's writers - Alan Milne, Lewis Carroll and Pamela Travers - Soviet children in Russian could read for the first time thanks to the translations of Boris Vladimirovich.

"Imagination"

Nature and animals are the topic that Boris Zakhoder used most often. His verses are filled with dialogues, in which the author talks with his hero-animals. And the characters respond to him. They express requests, complaints and strive for justice.

Collection "In My Imagination" most clearly manifests the uniqueness of the author. In it he created an extraordinary fairy-tale world. In these poems, the author's ability to play with the word is simple and unobtrusive.

About school and schoolchildren

Like a French writer and a pilot, Zakhoder "comes from childhood." In the poems about the school there is such a confidential tone and simple-hearted manner of narration that it seems that their author has not matured with his heart and soul. In the cycle "At the Back of the Party" he did not expose his heroes. They are fussy and lazy, but as if the poet Zakhoder is in solidarity with them. His poems are about children and for children. They depict a beautiful and magical world that only a child can see.

Fairy tales for people

The writer has combined prosaic children's products in a cycle, reading of which becomes not only entertainment. Scientifically accurate and fabulous fiction could combine Zakhoder. Tales "Once upon a time there was a Fip" and "Ma-Tari-Kari" are interesting and informative. Their main idea is a harmonious arrangement of the world, the unity of ecological and moral laws.

Interpreter

In the Russian literature, Boris Zakhoder entered yet thanks to his work on the tales of foreign authors. But the work in German, English, Czech and Polish, he rather did not translate, and retold. In these books there is a creative beginning of Zakhoder. And its popularity among Russian readers such characters as Winnie the Pooh, Mary Poppins and Bremen musicians, are primarily due to a talented translation. In the books loved by every Russian schoolboy, the author-translator was able to transfer his extraordinary humor, kindness and a unique verbal game.

On the basis of foreign fairy tales, Zakhoder wrote plays for plays and scenarios for cartoons.

For the children's theater, the writer wrote such works as "Rostik in the Dense Forest", "Wings of Thumbelina", "Lopushok at Lukomorye".

Lyrics

Boris Zakhoder created not only children's prose and poetry. He also wrote books for adults. A collection of lyrical touching works, "Leaf", published four years before his death, can become an unexpected, but pleasant discovery for fans of poetry. After all, the name Zakhoder is still associated with literature for the youngest readers.

In her memoirs the poet's wife once said that Boris Vladimirovich also wrote serious works. He translated Goethe and could introduce Russian-speaking readers to many great creations of foreign word masters. But in the country where he lived, it was not easy for a person with a "wrong" nationality and an atypical view of things. Faced with a misunderstanding of the "upstream", he decided to write exclusively for children. But even in this field, he waited a long time for recognition.

Boris Vladimirovich Zakhoder is well known not only in our country, but also abroad. He is the owner of the prestigious literary Prize. Andersen.

The writer passed away in 2000.