Victoria Tokareva Biography
Victoria Tokareva Victoria Samarevna Tokareva on November 20, Leningrad - Russian screenwriter and author of short stories. Victoria Tokareva was born in Leningrad in the year. Love for literature manifested itself at the age of 13, when her mother read to her the story of Chekhov “The Rothschild violin”. Nevertheless, love of literature did not immediately turn into a desire to become a writer, in the girlhood Tokareva decided to study medicine.
But her statement was rejected, she decided to receive a musical education and studied for four years in the piano class at the Leningrad State Conservatory named after N., however, she also did not succeed in this either. Realizing that she will never become a musician, she began to work as a music teacher at school on the outskirts of Moscow. Nevertheless, she was unhappy with her position, decided to become an actress and, in the year, entered the All -Russian State Institute of Cinematography named after C.
It was here that she discovered the talent of the writer and became a screenwriter. In the second year of study at the institute, Tokareva published her first short story “Day without a lie” Publishing house “Young Guard”. From that time on, the constant work of Tokareva began. Among the books of the Happy End, “instead of me”, and “horses with wings” written today, it is also published in the magazines “New World” and “Youth”.
The heroes of Tokareva, ordinary people with ordinary problems well familiar to the reader. Most of her heroes are women, which is why, basically, she is considered a female writer. Victoria Samoilovna’s work may seem moralistic, defending the common values and relationships of sexes, and for this reason Western critics consider the author a “feminist”. Although the writer writes mainly in a realistic manner, sometimes she is completely immersed, as she says, into “fantastic realism”, weaving magic into reality.
The work of Victoria Tokareva is often compared with A. The famous screenwriter and recognizes that the works of the great author had a significant impact on it. Tokarev also considers his beloved modern Russian writer Sergei Dovlatov. Critics are also diverse. Some Russian critics consider Tokarev just another female writer, and foreign critics consider Victoria Samoilovna not a female writer and no less talented than other Russian writers, including: Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Tatyana Tolstaya and Lyudmila Petrushevskaya.
Nevertheless, in the West, there is only a small critical essay regarding Tokareva’s work, but it is very often mentioned in the works of Elena Goskilo Helena Goscilo about Russian women of feminists, as well as Richard Richard Chapple. Tokareva began working with various Soviet filmmakers from the end of the year. Today, on the account of Victoria Samoilovna, 14 scenarios, many of which are the adaptation of her stories or books, among them are “one hundred grams for courage”, “Talisman” three films - “Gentlemen of Good luck”, the script together with the George Daneli, “Mimino”, the script together with the Gabriadze Revas and George Danelia and the dog was walking along Royal ” - were extremely successful, especially Mimino, which received the state prize of the year and a gold medal at the Moscow International Film Festival of the year.
Today, Victoria Samaevna Tokareva lives and continues to work in Moscow. Her works are translated into English and German and available in several collections, including Victoria Tokareva's Talisman and other stories; The author of the translation into English is Rosamund BARTTLETT ROSAMUND BARTLETT, and on German - Monica Dancer Monika Tantzschner.
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