Lunin, Victor Vladimirovich

Born in May 1945 in Moscow, in the family of pianist Frida Bauer.

Poetry and fairy tales Victor Lunin began to compose at school, but entered the path of a professional writer much later. The first publication of verses in periodicals appeared in the early 70s. The first tiny clamshell book “Gifts” for one poem was published in “Baby” in 1975. And the first real poetic collection “Do not step on an elephant” was published in “Baby” in 1978.

Around the same years, V. Lunin engaged in poetic translations. The discovery of a new poetic name for the Russian reader was a book of poems by an outstanding English poet of the 20th century, Walter de la Mara, “Songs of a Dream” (DL, 1983), translated by Victor Lunin. On the disc of Mikhail Feigin's “Only One Road”, which was released by Melody in 1990, there are two songs to the poems of Walter de la Mara translated by Victor Lunin: “Among the Roses” and “The Wind”.

V. Lunin published more than thirty books of poetry and prose. His poetic "Az-bu-ka" for children has become a reference for the transfer of letter sound. And his book “Children's Album” (Poems for the piano cycle of the same name by P. I. Tchaikovsky) at the 3rd All-Russian competition for the children's book “Father's House” in 1996 was awarded with a diploma. For "Children's Album" Viktor Lunin in the same year was awarded the title of winner of the literary prize of the magazine "Murzilka". In 1997, his fairy tale "The Adventures of Butter Lisa" was awarded, as the best fairy tale about cats, a library of foreign literature (VGBIL).

In early 1997, V. Lunin first published the volume "Favorites". For translating verses of this volume V. Lunin in 1998 was awarded an honorary international diploma to them. Andersen. In the same 1998, V. Lunin received a diploma of the laureate of the National Art Committee of Russia for the book of fairy tales “The Adventures of Rich Lisa” and lyrics for the animated series “Dunno on the Moon” .

In 2001, Grant published his translation of Alfred Tennyson's book The Royal Idylls, a complete poetic code of legends about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. In 2004, Rosman Publishing House released a translation of Susan Price's fairy-tale story Talking Head. In 2009, the publishing house "Machaon" published a translation of the novel by Rudyard Kipling "Your faithful dog Boots." In 2010, V. Lunin published the novel “Alexander Nevsky” for children at the RIPOL Classic publishing house.

In 2011, he published his translation of Kenneth Graham 's book , The Wind in the Willows . In the same year, V. Lunin’s retelling published “The Word of Igor’s Regiment” and “King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.” (Both books were published by Makhaon Publishing House), and Vita Nova publishing house - a collection of poems “Islands ".

• The winner of the literary prize of the magazine "Murzilka" ( 1996 )
• The author of the best book about cats - VGIBL award ( 1997 )
• International diploma to them. Andersen ( 1998 )
• Laureate of the National Art Committee of Russia ( 1998 )
• Laureate of the third All-Russian competition of works for children and youth in the category "Poetry" "Scarlet Sails" ( 2006 )
• Awarded by the Academy of Russian Literature with the A. S. Pushkin Medal for the “Adherent of Education” ( 2008 )
• Laureate of the A.P. Chekhov Prize of the Moscow City Organization of the Union of Writers of Russia ( 2009 )
• Laureate of the literary prize named after Korney Chukovsky ( 2011 )

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