In professional literature, children's writer Sergei Anatolyevich Ivanov is remembered as the creator of school stories. All his works are filled with kindness and warmth. Eduard Uspensky praised the work of the author and called him "childish Dostoevsky." But, unlike him, Ivanov’s works were extremely bright, although a little sad. Such psychological and thoughtful creations were created by Sergey Anatolyevich Ivanov.
Writer Biography
Ivanov was a unique children's writer, Soviet poet and screenwriter. He was born in 1941 on July 17 in Moscow. He studied well, after school he entered the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute named after V.I. Lenin at the faculty of defectology. Already in his institute years, he showed a craving for literature. He takes an active part in the release of student wall newspapers. He writes reviews of works, publishes verses of his own composition and parodies of other people's creations. As Sergei Anatolyevich later liked to joke, it was his participation in the wall newspaper that was a real test of his literary talent, it was a kind of literary institute.
As his friends recall, Seryozha was a very kind, vulnerable and shy person, even when he became famous.
After graduating from the institute, as it was supposed before, he was assigned to work in one of the provincial towns by profession. Thanks to his work experience in a school for children with speech impairments, he learned a lot, which later came in handy in his work.
First publications
The very first works that Ivanov Sergey Anatolyevich published were small children's stories and poems of his own composition. He published in children's magazines. At that time, he was secretary of the Central Committee, from where they sent the beginning writer to work in children's print magazines. The most famous at that time were “Bonfire”, “Murzilka” and “Pioneer”.
In 1971, his first book was published - a collection of children's poems called "Forest Workshop", which was highly praised by teachers and critics. It is from this time that he decides to write only for children and about children.
Professionalism of Ivanov
Literary professionalism came to the author when he turned thirty, after releasing a collection of short stories "Bread and Snow", published in 1973 by the publishing house "Children's Literature". However, the first book that the author published was a collection of poems for children called "Baby." The bulk of his works are stories about nature and animals. These are creations that fully comply with the canons of traditional Russian prose. The wisdom and warmth of the stories, as well as their lyricism and imagery, remind the works of Yu. Koval and M. Prishvin.
The author tries to convey to the reader the idea that people are responsible for everything living on Earth, teaches to love and appreciate it. It shows the inseparability of man and nature, the role of nature in human life, as well as man in nature. These are the works written by Sergei Anatolyevich Ivanov. The writer with his creations is trying to convey to the reader that he has an amazing opportunity to enjoy and admire nature and animals, and you need to do it here and now, without delay.
In addition to stories about nature, the collection included works about schoolchildren and children. The book really liked the little readers and received positive reviews from literary critics. The author himself liked to say that the book should not be like in life, books are needed for this, so that it would be brighter, louder, more fun in them. It was such works that Ivanov created, they were fascinating, thoughtful and at the same time lyrical. The most famous and beloved were the stories: “In the Endless Forest”, “Former Bulka and His Daughter”, “He Is Not Among Us”, “The Thirteenth Year of Life”, “Olga Yakovleva” and others.
Deserved popularity
Only after the publication of the story "Olga Yakovleva" the next morning Ivanov Sergey Anatolyevich became famous. The author’s books were bought up from bookshelves, and in literary circles he decided on his credo as the author of “school stories”.
At that time, and it was the 60s - 70s, when he began to be published as a professional author, such distinguished writers as V. Zheleznikov, A. Aleksin and Yuri Yakovlev actively worked in this genre. Ivanov Sergey Anatolyevich, although he was much younger than them and did not have such literary experience, was nevertheless able to take his rightful place in this row of honored masters.
Instructive creativity
In his works, Ivanov was able to maintain a clean and high note, which runs through the red line in the works of Kassil and Gaidar, but with intonation peculiar only to him. This intonation is both lyrical and comic-ironic. To this day, not many works touch upon such serious issues, and communicate with teenagers on adult topics, and talk about problems that can affect not only adults, describe real life. Ivanov Sergey Anatolyevich precisely from such writers. He, like no one else, could subtly feel and understand teenagers with their unstable and aggressive behavior, unwillingness to put up with injustice and the desire to improve relations in the family.
The main character of the work
The main characters of his stories are teenagers of the 70s - mid 90s. Despite the fact that a lot of time has passed since these times, their conflicts and problems are still relevant today. In those days, parents changed their traditional attitude towards the child. Their attitude towards children no longer became so warm and warm, but more took on a formal character.
Unfortunately, all these problems are relevant to this day. That is why the stories of Sergei Ivanov, as before, sound modern. The main topic of his books is the most complicated relationship between an individual and a collective, an adult and a child, he writes about first love and an acute desire for justice. These were unique, vibrant and at the same time extremely lyrical works.
Ivanov screenwriter
In addition to literature, Sergey Anatolyevich Ivanov was also involved in writing scripts for animated films and feature films. His most famous animated film is the series "Lost and Found", which is very fond of the young audience, as well as "Dunno on the Moon." Sergei Ivanov wrote a large number of scripts, but the rest remain less known.
“Last year’s snow fell”
Perhaps, to this day, the creation of the animated film "Last Year's Snow" remained the most famous of his work as a screenwriter. The cartoon is made in the style of plasticine animation. Ivanov worked on its creation together with Alexander Tatarsky, who was already known as the creator of such plasticine animations. For their creation, the creators had to compete fairly. The cartoon went through severe censorship, literally for every word the authors had to argue with critics. In almost every expression there was a hidden political hint. The innocuous and funny remarks of the protagonist seemed to them a terrible sedition. A large number of scenes were cut out of the cartoon, some of the protagonist’s expressions were voiced, but, despite this, the world saw a real masterpiece, and the replicas from the cartoon simply scattered into quotes.
