Boris Ekimov: the work of the Russian writer

Boris Ekimov is a well-known Russian novelist, whose wise works plunge the reader into the familiar world of everyday everyday life with daily problems, an eternal crisis, constant struggle and humility.

Biography of Boris Yekimov

Boris - a native of the town of Igarka (Krasnoyarsk Territory), was born in 1938, on November 19, in a family specializing in furs. A year later, after his father died, the family changed their place of residence to Irkutsk, then the Almaty region - the settlement of Ili, and in 1945 settled in the city of Kalach-na-Donu (Volgograd region). The path to literature from the writer began from the time the boy learned to read. After school, the young man graduated from the Stalingrad Mechanical Institute, then worked in the factory, after - served in the army. Prior to writing, I tried myself in various professions: an electrician at a factory, a locksmith, a builder, a teacher of labor in a rural school.

Writer's debut

His debut as a prose writer took place in 1965, after the publication of the story in the magazine "Young Guard". "The Girl in a Red Coat" (1974) - the author's debut book, published by the Sovremennik publishing house, immediately became an application for a personal niche in literature. Further Russian prose was enriched with books "The Night of Healing", "We arrived safely", "At our own", "Officer", "The Last Hut". In 1976 Ekimov Boris Petrovich received a membership in the Writers' Union of Russia, and three years later graduated from the Higher Literary Courses.

Boris Ekimov: stories about a Russian person

For the entire period of long literary activity, the Russian prose writer wrote more than two hundred works that were published in such publications as Novy Mir, Rossiya, Niva Tsaritsynskaya, Znamya, Nash Sovremennik. Most of the readership rated such works as "Shepherd's Star", "Parents' House", "For Warm Bread", "The Night of Healing". Writer deservedly considered the guidebook of literary customs of the Don region, because his soulful works truthfully describe the everyday life of ordinary people. And such a topic is understandable to many, therefore Ekimov's books are in great demand among the readership. In the heroes of the author's stories, each person recognizes himself and his being - disturbing, with perestroika, eternal crises, fraternal wars, broken into shards. Boris Ekimov carefully collects these fragments in a single picture as evidence of what the Russian has experienced and is experiencing in recent decades. This is especially evident in the works "Do not cry", "For warm bread", "Pinochet". In 2008, the Russian author was awarded the Solzhenitsyn Prize with the formulation "For pain and acuity in describing the lost state of the Russian province and displaying the ineradicable dignity of the Russian people."

Mindfulness in the works of Yekimov Boris

In his native Volgograd writer Boris Petrovich Ekimov is the most recognized author. His prose is full of wisdom and tranquility. In the stories in whole unity, the world of the human soul and nature is shown, and individual and minor events, like a multicolored mosaic, form into whole pictures of life. The inner world of man Boris Ekimov reveals through the manifold manifestations of nature.

The collection "The Day wakes up" describes the life episodes of everyday life of small towns and farm life. The described stories are kept in touch between old people, adults and children, the interaction of human consciousness and the surrounding reality. A city boy of six years old, having lived a year in the countryside, is pining, penetrating with love for the colt that has not yet appeared and zeal for work. Here grandfather takes his grandson to admire the river and forest, and nature is the best connecting for these representatives of two generations. A first-grader is very worried that his mother laughed at him in front of a girl from a parallel class. The language of Boris Yekimov does not include borrowings and dialectisms; The author writes in pure Russian, which in this form was preserved only on the library shelves and in school textbooks.

The writer's works were translated into several languages: Italian, French, English, Spanish, German. And the story "Shepherd's Star" enriched the presidential library.