Agnija Lvovna Barto
Agnija Lwowna Barto ( Russian А́гния Льво́вна Барто́ , scientific transliteration Agniya Lvovna Barto ; born February 17, 1906 in Moscow ; † April 1, 1981 in Moscow) was a Soviet poet , children's writer and screenwriter .
Career
Barto was born in Moscow as the daughter of a Russian-Jewish veterinarian. At the same time as high school, she attended a ballet school from 1924 and wrote her first poems. At the graduation ceremony of her ballet school, she read some of her poems out loud and impressed the publicist and People's Commissar for Education Anatoly Lunacharsky who was present . He advised her not to become a ballerina, but a writer.
In 1925 her first poems were published, The Chinese Boy Wan Li (Китайчонок Ван Ли) and Mishka the Thief (Мишка-воришка). This was followed by the first of May (Первое мая, 1926) and brothers (Братишки, 1928). She wrote some poems together with her husband, the poet Pawel Barto. She made her breakthrough in 1936 with the children's book Toys (Игрушки).
During World War II, Barto often appeared on the radio and wrote patriotic texts. In 1942 she worked as a correspondent for the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper on the Western Front. In 1950 she received the Stalin Prize, endowed with 50,000 rubles, for her book Poems for Children (Стихи детям, 1949).
From 1965 to 1973 she hosted the radio show Finding a Person (Найти человека), in which she helped bring families torn apart by the war back together. With their help, around a thousand families were reunited. She wrote a book of the same name about her work, which was published in 1968.
From 1939 Barto also worked as a screenwriter and took part in numerous children's films. In 1973 she wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Finding a Person . She died in Moscow in 1981.
Awards (selection)
- Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union (1939)
- Second stage Stalin Prize (1950)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1956 and 1966)
- Lenin Prize (1972)
- Order of Lenin (1976)
- Hans Christian Andersen Prize (1976)
- Order of the October Revolution
- Order of the Smile
In 1968 the asteroid Barto was named after her. A crater on Venus also bears her name.
Web links
- A collection of Barto's poems in Russian
- Illustrations for Barto's children's book The Insult ("Oбида", 1966) by the illustrator Marina Uspenskaja
Individual evidence
- ^ Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved May 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Биография Агнии Барто. February 17, 2016, Retrieved May 8, 2019 (Russian).
- ↑ БАРТО, АГНИЯ ЛЬВОВНА | Энциклопедия Кругосвет. Retrieved May 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Agniya Barto. Retrieved May 8, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barto, Agnija Lvovna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Barto, Agniya Lvovna; Барто́, А́гния Льво́вна (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet poet, children's writer and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1, 1981 |
| Place of death | Moscow |