Viktoria Samoyovna Tokareva
Wiktorija Samoilowna Tokareva ( Russian Виктория Самойловна Токарева , scientific transliteration Viktorija Samojlovna Tokareva ; born November 20, 1937 in Leningrad ) is a Russian writer and screenwriter who is best known for her stories.
biography
Viktorija Tokareva was born on November 20, 1937, the daughter of a Leningrad engineer . In 1958 she graduated from the Leningrad University of Music with a degree in piano . In 1969 she graduated from the State All Union Institute for Cinematography with a degree in screenplay . She began to write while working as a singing teacher at a children's music school and later as a television editor. In 1964 she published her first story Day Without Lies ( День без вранья ) . As a result, she was offered to write a screenplay for a film project. So in 1968 her first film Literature Lesson ( Урок литературы ) appeared on the big screens. Further stories were published in the leading Soviet literary magazines Junost and Nowy Mir in the following years . In 1969 her first book, About what was not ( О том, чего не было ) came out, in which older as well as new stories were collected. In the 1970s and 1980s, Tokareva's works were rarely printed. Between 1969 and 1991 only four books were published. Nonetheless, their stories became classics of Soviet literature. In the first 15 years after the collapse of the Soviet system, more than 10 volumes of Tokareva's old and new stories were published. Viktorija Tokareva lives in Moscow .
Works
Scripts (selection)
- Урок литературы (1968)
- Gentlemen of Success (Джентльмены удачи) (1971)
- Совсем пропащий (1973)
- Mimino (Мимино) (1977) - The film won the Golden Prize at the Moscow International Film Festival in 1977 .
- Шла собака по роялю (1978)
Volumes of stories (selection)
- О том, чего не было (1969)
- Ничего особенного (1983)
- Летающие качели (1987) contains The Secret of the Earth
- Старая собака (1991)
- Сказать, не сказать (1991)
- День без вранья (1995)
- Шла собака по роялю (1995)
- На черта нам чужие (1995)
- Лошади с крыльями (1996)
- Римские каникулы (1996)
- Скажи мне что-нибудь (1997)
- Вместо меня (1997)
- Нахал (1997)
- Кошка на дороге (1997)
- Коррида (1997)
- Сентиментальное путешествие (1997)
- Один из нас (1998)
- Кино и вокруг (1998)
- Гладкое личико (1999)
- Розовые розы (1999)
- Все нормально, все хорошо (2000)
- Звезда в тумане (2000)
- Мало ли что бывает ... (2001)
Web links
- Literature by and about Wiktorija Samoilowna Tokarewa in the catalog of the German National Library
- Viktorija Tokarjewa at Diogenes Verlag
- Article about Tokareva near Lyudi (Russian)
- Viktoriya Tokareva in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- About love and other stupidities About Viktorija Tokarjewa's "love terror" (stories) - Glarean Magazin (4/2008)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Tokareva, Viktoria Samoyovna |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Токарева, Виктория Самойловна (Russian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1937 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Leningrad |