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Irina Petrovna Tokmakova
Ирина Токмакова
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3 March 1929 - 5 April 2018
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Irina Tokmakova is a Soviet and Russian children’s poetess and translator from English and Swedish, the owner of the State Prize of the Russian Federation for the book for children and youth “Happy Way”. Irina Petrovna was born on March 3, 1927 in Moscow, she was fond of composing poetry as a child, but for a long time considered this occupation no more than a hobby, believing that she had no literary talent. So she decided to become a linguist and translator, graduating in 1953 from Moscow State
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Irina Tokmakova is a Soviet and Russian children’s poetess and translator from English and Swedish, the owner of the State Prize of the Russian Federation for the book for children and youth “Happy Way”.
Irina Petrovna was born on March 3, 1927 in Moscow, she was fond of composing poetry as a child, but for a long time considered this occupation no more than a hobby, believing that she had no literary talent. So she decided to become a linguist and translator, graduating in 1953 from Moscow State University.
At the professional level, she was engaged in literary translations of literature for children, one might say accidentally - once she met a Swedish energy worker, Mr. Borgquist, who, learning that the young translator was a great fan of Swedish poetry, gave her son a collection of Swedish children's folk songs. When she began translating for herself, she did not think that her husband would take the poems to a publishing house and publish them there. Thus began Tokmakova’s career as a translator of children’s books, in addition, she began to produce poems and novels of her own composition. Among the books that Irina Petrovna translated into Russian is the story of the Scottish classic Kenneth Graham “The Wind in the Willows”.