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"One should write for children as if printing hasn't been invented, without taking literacy into consideration. What had writers of ancient times to rely on-except memory?"
Boris Zakhoder is one of the brightest figures in twentieth-century Russian children's literature. The author of more than two hundred books, he was the first recipient, in 1993, of the national award for contribution to the development of children's literature, established by the Association of Russian Children's Writers and the Russian Section of IBBY. His verse presents children with poetry's vast diversity, his tales accumulate the cosmic energy of children's fantasy, and his translations introduce the common human spiritual space to his...