Fokina Olga Alexandrovna: biography, poetry

Fokina Olga Alexandrovna is a Russian poet, the author of several dozen books of poems and poems, who dedicated her original great talent to selfless service to the people and the beloved Northern Territory. Works Fokina permeated with the theme of Russian folklore, incredible love for nature, each her blade, a leaf, a flower. Olga Alexandrovna's works are the colors of her native land, her tunes, voices, breathing, heartbeats. Through all his work, the poet carries blood attachment and respect for hard peasant labor, worries about the "dying" village and the fate of his beloved Russia.

Olga Fokina: Biography

Olga was born on September 2, 1937 in the village of Artemyevskaya (Arkhangelsk region), in a large family, who lived not richly, but very friendly. Father Alexander Ivanovich and Claudia Andreyevna's mother came from ordinary peasant families. Dad worked as a foreman at the collective farm "New North", with the outbreak of war went to the front, got into the hospital and a few weeks after discharge died "because of his stay at the front." So it was stated in the certificate according to which the orphaned family the state allocated a survivor's benefit in the amount of 6 rubles 50 kopecks a month: for five children from infancy to 14 years.

Childhood: Heavy and Military

In a hungry time little Olya, to somehow help the hungry relatives, went to a nearby village to beg. The older brothers also tried to earn extra money, to somehow help the mother with the baby in her arms. People helped the girl who than she could: breadcrumbs, a hunchback, a potato. It was about these hard times that the first poems of the author were written. Throughout the work of the early period, the echoes of childhood, torn by a terrible war, are traced. Touching the soul of the grief of a child who has lost his father. Tremendous first childish joy. Clearly, there is a motive of deep guilt before the mother, from under her wing Olga Fokina fled into adulthood. "Snowdrops" is a famous poem about wartime and a simple boy, caught in his millstones, but has not lost the sense of beauty.

It was mother - Claudia Andreevna, who graduated from the 4 classes of the parish school - was a man who managed to lay the love of folk art in the heart of the girl. Her tender lullabies, fascinating tales, poems of Surikov and Nekrasov sowed a grain of love for the literary syllable in the soul of the child.

Years of study

1945 marked the beginning of school life. During the training, the girl showed a talent for writing poetry, which she carefully recorded in a self-made album, made from a cut across a notebook. Fokina Olga grew up as a painful girl, often missed school classes, staying at home alone. Communication with oneself and nature aroused in the adolescent an observation and attentiveness to trifles. The impressions and new sensations immediately lay down rhymed lines on a piece of paper. Fokina finished seven classes of school in 1952, with the result "excellent." On the advice of my mother I entered the medical school in Arkhangelsk.

First publications

In 1955 in the youth newspaper "North Komsomolets" were published two poems by Fokina Olga with a portrait of the author and a warm farewell from the editorial staff. At the end of her studies, the girl got a job in the Verkhnetoemskii lespromkhoz as the head of the first-aid post. In the process of working, running on calls and winding miles through the forests, Olga was composed even better. The poetess popped up in her head trying to quickly write down a piece of paper or the reverse side of a mustard plaster. For a day could write about a dozen poems. In the writers' organization, where Olga Fokina carried her works, her talent was evaluated and published in the almanac "North" by the author's poem.

In 1957, Olga Fokina decided to enter the capital's literary institute, easily passed a creative contest and after a successful passing of the exams she became a student. After completing her studies in 1962, she worked for a while as a junior editor of the publishing house Sovetskaya Rossiya, and in the autumn of 1963 she moved to her permanent residence in Vologda. In the same year, two other significant events occurred: the publication of the first book of poems "Syr-bor" and the enrollment of a young poetess in the Writers' Union.

Characteristic features of poetry

Olga Fokina's works leave no one indifferent: they have an incredible amount of warmth, kindness, sincere love for nature and people. The speech of the rhymed lines is expressive, memorable, often based on the northern dialect. The principle "in everyday and everyday to see the beauty and inspiration of the people's soul" in the life of the Russian poetess is one of the main. Olga Fokina's poems describe attractive people - noble rural workers, who know what work is, and who know how to appreciate rest. A characteristic feature of the poetry of Olga Fokina is singing; Many songs familiar from childhood were written by a Russian poetess. This is the famous "My Clear Star", performed by Valery Meladze, and "Hello, the little river of Palengh" is a song by Lyudmila Senchina.

Creativity of Olga Fokina

Olga Fokina's creativity is interesting and understandable for the younger generation, but the author published a small book for only 32 pages, "I was in the woods today," which included mostly poems about nature.

A noteworthy event was the publication in 2002 of the collection "Pendulum", which included the best poems of Olga Fokina for the period from 1956 to 2012. The foreword was a heartfelt article of the Soviet poet Sergei Vasilievich Vikulov, dedicated to the life and work of Olga Fokina.

The author of numerous poetry collections, Fokina Olga Aleksandrovna, has been awarded state awards many times. The poet often holds literary evenings, meets with readers. Particularly warm Olga received in her native Vologda.