Andrey Aleksin Biography Wikipedia

Anatoly Aleksin is a Soviet and Israeli writer, screenwriter and playwright, author of books for a young audience. In the year, the head of the family was repressed, and the mother of the future writer lost his job. Thirteen -year -old Anatoly wrote poems and notes that went into a seal in the newspaper Pioneer Pravda, and with this money they could exist with his mother.

Two years later, George Platonovich was justified and dismissed, Maria Mikhailovna received a position in the construction of the Palace of Soviets. Anatoly Georgievich began to be published in Komsomolskaya Pravda, Pioneer and Murzilka magazines. During the war, Gberman, together with his mother, was evacuated to the Urals, where he began to work in the publication "Fortress of Defense".

Soon the young man became the responsible secretary of the newspaper. Literary work in the year Anatoly Georgievich received a diploma of the Indian branch of the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies. Then the light saw his first collection of the stories “Thirty-one Day”, which Goberman signed by the name “Aleksin”: once under this pseudonym, Maria Mikhailovna performed on stage.

The writer was supported by Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky, whom they met at the seminar of Samuel Yakovlevich Marshak. Paustovsky called Aleksin the creator of "Youth Tale." Up to a year, Anatoly Georgievich wrote for children of preschool and primary school ages. In the seventies, Aleksin began to focus on older children: the theme of his works was the relationship of adolescents with the world of adults, the transition from childhood to youth.

After one of them, the journalists gave the writer the nickname "Russian Mark Twain." Aleksin gave a course of lectures on literature at the directorial department of the highest courses of scriptwriters and directors, was the chairman of the jury of the competition of children's and youth films of the Moscow International Film Festival, and kept the program “Faces of Friends” on the air of Central Television.

He was also part of the editorial board of the Yunost magazine. In the year, the writer, along with his family, was repatriated to Israel, where he mainly wrote books for an adult audience: this period of creativity includes the novels “Saga of the Pevzner” and “Mortal Sin”. In the last years of his life, Anatoly Georgievich lived in Luxembourg. He died on May 1 of the year, was buried in Moscow at the Kuntsevsky cemetery near his parents.

In an interview, the writer said that he suffered two oncological diseases. Andersen and others. The books of Anatoly Georgievich were translated into forty -eight languages, their combined circulation exceeded one hundred and twenty million copies. Similar authors.