Anatoly Pristavkin: biography, creativity

Anatoly Pristavkin is a writer, most of whose works were published in Soviet times. His books are translated into thirty languages. The main idea in his work is the assertion that the world has no right to exist, if the children perish in it. This article is devoted to the life and creative ways of this writer.

Childhood

Pristavkin Anatoly Ignatievich was born in the Moscow region of Lyubertsy in 1931. He often took stories from his memories of his unhappy childhood. One of them was connected with a family tragedy. The grandfather of the future writer once, long before the birth of his grandson, after returning from the capital, began to tell the households and neighbors about the strikes in Petersburg. This was in 1905. A few days after his return, the man was arrested. His guilt was only in the desire to tell the latest news to his acquaintances. But after his release, the nickname "revolutionary" firmly entrenched him for many years.

Still Anatoly Pristavkin all life did not forget shoe pads, which his father had mastered so skillfully. Thanks to the skilful labor of the future writer's parents, all members of the family were full, dressed and shod, which was a rather rare phenomenon for the pre-war period. But soon the mother died, the war began. And life got sad shades.

Orphanhood

Anatoly Pristavkin lost his parents at the very beginning of the war. Mother died in 1941, and almost immediately sent to the front of the father.

The boy was destined for the destiny of a homeless child. He became one of many children whom the war made orphans. Like other boys, deprived of parental care, he wandered around the country, he was thrown into the most diverse corners of the country. He visited the Urals, traveled all over the Moscow region. And finally he was in the North Caucasus, where in the last years of the war street children were evicted. This decision, which was adopted at the state level, was preceded by the deportation of the local population. Territory as a result of the rapid operation was emptied. Perhaps, Anatoly Pristavkin would not have become one of the best writers of the Soviet period, had he not had such sad facts in his biography.

Young years

Pristavkin Anatoly Ignatievich began to work very early. Already at the age of fourteen he worked in one of the Caucasian canneries. Then there was an aircraft factory, which later Anatoly Pristavkin remembered with emotional trembling. His biography also includes years of study at the evening department, the army, participation in amateur performances. However, a small radio laboratory in the aircraft factory became almost a home for Pristavka.

During the service in the army, an artistic fighter was noticed and started to use in full force as a reciter of poetic works. And it was during this period that Pristavkin decided to create something of his own.

The first works

Anatoly wrote his first play, and then began to write poetry. At first he acted only as an author-reader. It was enough for him to pronounce his poetry from the stage. The desire to expand the circle of listeners arose later. However, when, after the publication of the first works, Anatoly saw his own lines, typed with a typographical font, he decided to devote himself once and for all to his writing activities.

Literary Institute

After demobilization Anatoly Ignatievich decided to get a literary education and in 1959 entered the Gorky Institute. As a student, he studied on a poetic course from one of the famous authors of those years. The teachers appreciated Pristavkin's literary gift when he was still in his first year. However, his talent, as the professionals believed, was not the writing of poetry, but the writing of works of small prose. The first stories were published in a literary magazine in 1959. These works were translated into many languages after many years. Their theme is children's destinies, crippled by war.

Taiga essays

After graduation, the writer went to the Irkutsk Region, to the construction site of the Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station. Even in his student years, Pristavkin visited these parts, and people living in harsh taiga conditions made an unforgettable impression on him. Here were created taiga essays.

The next period in the life of Pristavkin is devoted to the work of a journalist in Literaturnaya Gazeta. And soon received the honorary title of a member of the Writers' Union. "Country Lepia", "Bonfires in the taiga", "Notes of my contemporary" - these works are dedicated to the taiga by the author. And even on his return to the capital, Pristavkin still for many many years did not lose contact with the Siberian expanses dear to his heart and regularly flew there.

A Tale of Childhood

The real literary success came to Anatoly Pristavkin in 1988, after the publication of the story, the creation of which took almost ten years. "The golden cloud slept" - a work that the author began to write in the early eighties. This book is full of tragedy and truth. It is a reflection of reality, which the writer had occasion to see in his childhood. The story is translated into many languages. The film of the same name was shot the same year, when Anatoly Pristavkin finished his work on his work. Photos and frames from this film are located above. Later the novel "Kukushata" was written, the plot of which is no less tragic.

At the end of his life, the writer gave a lot of social activity. He was awarded several prizes. He died in Moscow in 2008.