Boris Zakhoder
Boris Zakhoder | |
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Born | Kagul, Bessarabia | September 9, 1918
Died | November 7, 2000 Moscow, Russia | (aged 82)
Boris Vladimirovich Zakhoder (Russian: Бори́с Влади́мирович Заходе́р; 9 September 1918, Kagul, Bessarabia — 7 November 2000, Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet poet and children's writer. He is best known for his translations of Winnie-the-Pooh, Mary Poppins, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and other children's classics.
Biography
Boris Zakhoder was born to a Jewish family in Kagul (now Cahul, Moldova) and grew up in Moscow. His father was a lawyer, a graduate of Moscow University, and his grandfather was the first crown rabbi of Nizhny Novgorod. After he graduated from high school in 1935, Zakhoder studied at Moscow Aviation Institute, Moscow and Kazan University until in 1938 he entered Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. His studies were interrupted when he was drafted to Soviet-Finnish War and later to World War II. He then returned to the institute and graduated in 1947. He started publishing poems and fairy tales for the children the same year and became popular as a children's writer. His work on translations of Goethe is much less known.
Zakhoder started publishing translations of children's literature in 1960 with A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh. His translation of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is especially notable as it became more popular than previous notable translations by several well-known writers, including Samuil Marshak and Vladimir Nabokov. Zakhoder was awarded Russian State Prize for his work. One of his children's books is a collection of stories called "The Hermit and the Rose."
See also
References
External links
- B. V. Zakhoder, a website dedicated to Boris Zakhoder (in Russian)
- Zakhoder, Boris Vladimirovich, a WorldCat page.
- 1918 births
- 2000 deaths
- Russian children's writers
- Russian male poets
- Soviet poets
- 20th-century Russian poets
- Soviet children's writers
- Soviet male writers
- English–Russian translators
- Jewish poets
- Russian Jews
- Soviet Jews
- Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery
- State Prize of the Russian Federation laureates
- Converts to Christianity from Judaism
- 20th-century translators
- International Writing Program alumni
- Russian poet stubs
- European translator stubs
- Russian linguist stubs
- Russian writer stubs