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Valentin Grigorevich Rasputin
Валентин Распутин
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15 March 1937 - 14 March 2015
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Valentin Grigorievich Rasputin is known primarily as the author of the story “French Lessons”, based on which the film of the same name was created – about humanity, self-sacrifice and the kindness of a simple woman who wished to support another child in difficult days for him. The writer was an adherent of the genre of “village stories”, which reveal the characters of people modest, but generous with their soul. Valentin Grigorievich was born in the village of Atalanka (Irkutsk region), after graduating
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Valentin Grigorievich Rasputin is known primarily as the author of the story “French Lessons”, based on which the film of the same name was created – about humanity, self-sacrifice and the kindness of a simple woman who wished to support another child in difficult days for him. The writer was an adherent of the genre of “village stories”, which reveal the characters of people modest, but generous with their soul.
Valentin Grigorievich was born in the village of Atalanka (Irkutsk region), after graduating from the local primary school, he was forced to leave his parents' home, fifty kilometers away, to receive final secondary education (this personal experience became the basis of the French Lessons). Having received a certificate, he entered the historical and philological faculty of Irkutsk State University, and a little later became a freelance correspondent of a youth newspaper. One of his essays was so “non-standard” that it caught the attention of the editor (under the title “I forgot to ask Leshka” it can be read in the almanac “Angara” for 1961).
Rasputin’s professional work began with correspondent work in the newspapers of Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk. Having visited the construction of the Krasnoyarsk HPP and the Abakan-Taishet highway, Valentin Grigorievich described his impressions in essays and short stories (collections “Kostrovyyy New Cities” and “The Edge near the Sky itself”). Since 1966, thanks to the assistance of V. Chivilikhin, Rasputin became known as a professional writer, and in 1967 became a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR. Among the works that captured the imagination of readers - "Farewell to the Mother", the story "Live and remember".
After the publication of many original works, Valentin Grigorievich Rasputin received a high award - the Golden Star of the Hero of Socialist Labor. Among the best books of the writer is the work “Fire”, the story “The Last Term”.
One of the last books of the author is the third edition of the album of essays "Siberia, Siberia" in 2006 (the previous editions were published in 1991, 2000). Valentin Grigorievich lives and works in Irkutsk. /