Georgiy Ball
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Georgiy Ball | |
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| Native name | Гео́ргий Алекса́ндрович Балл |
| Born | Georgiy Alexandrovich Ball June 9, 1927 Soviet Union |
| Died | January 1, 2011 (aged 83) Moscow, Russia |
| Occupation | Writer |
Georgiy Alexandrovich Ball (Russian: Гео́ргий Алекса́ндрович Балл, June 9, 1927 – January 1, 2011) was a Russian writer. Ball was best known for his prolific work in children's literature.
Biography
Georgiy was born on June 9, 1927 in Soviet Union into a family of a psychiatrist.
He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations and soon started working in the international department of Moscow Radio (1948-53). Later he started working as a correspondent of the All-Union Radio in Sverdlovsk region (1953-54). He served as the editor for the magazine named "Soviet Unions" from 1954 to 1958. He spent a significant amount of his life touring different regions of Russia such as Irkutsk taiga, Altai Mountains, forests of the North etc.
Georgiy started his writing career in 1960 and continue until his death in 2011. He has published numerous fairy tales, stories and plays for children and also co-authored several publications with his wife Galina Demykina. His works in fiction for adults have been published since the early 1980s which includes the novel "Pain Points" (1983), "I laugh and cry with you. Novels and Stories" (1988), a collection of stories "Up for Silence" (1999), etc. He has been published in many periodicals and magazines.
His prose of the last two decades was imbued with the motif of overcoming death and pain, understanding of any misfortune, mystery of hope and kindness, love for everyone, even the lost person, high tolerance for various human manifestations. This content was largely due to the untimely passing of his son, an artist Andrei Demykina and his wife, poetess Galina Demykina. One of the sections of the collection "Up for Silence" is called "Death - Birth". The dramatic fates of his favorite characters, ordinary people, are inseparable from the breath of eternity. The title of one of the stories, "No Tragedy," speaks directly to the fact that death is but a milestone of inexhaustible life. His works are characterized by a natural blend of sadness, grotesque, drawn from life itself, and enlightenment.
Georgiy is the winner of the All-Union competition for the "Best Children's Book" (1989), the prize of the radio station "Deutsche Welle" (Cologne, 1992), the festival of small prose named after Ivan S. Turgenev (1998) and the network literary competition "Catch" (autumn 2000).
He is buried in Moscow at Vagankovo Cemetery.[1]
Bibliography
- Дорога в лето. Moscow, 1962
- Жук-кривая горка. Moscow, 1968
- Малышка. Moscow, 1971
- Торопун-Карапун и тайны моего детства. Moscow, 1974
- Зобенька и серебряный колокольчик. Moscow, 1977
- Болевые точки. Moscow, 1983
- Солнечные прятки: повесть-сказка. Moscow, 1985
- Смеюсь и плачу вместе с тобой: повести и рассказы. Moscow, 1988
- Городок Жур-Жур. Moscow, 1988
- Разноцветный мост. Moscow, 1990
- Каляка-маляка ищет домик. Moscow, 1992
- Вверх за тишиной. Moscow, 1999
- Приключения Старого Башмака, рассказанные им самим. Moscow, 2003
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- ^ "БАЛЛ Георгий Александрович (1927 – 2011) — Moscow Tobms" (in Russian). www.moscow-tombs.ru.