Russian poet, translator and children's writer
Boris Vladimirovich Zakhoder (Russian : Бори́с Влади́мирович Заходе́р ; 9 September 1918 — 7 November 2000) was a Russian poet , translator and children's writer . He is best known for his translations of Winnie-the-Pooh Mary Poppins Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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 version was also the basis for the Soviet 1969 animated film Winnie-the-Pooh Russian State Prize for his work. One of his children's books is a collection of stories called "The Hermit and the Rose."
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