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Uriy Vyacheslavovich Sotnik
Юрий Сотник
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11 June 1914 - 3 December 1997
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(1914 - 1997)
He was born in Vladikavkaz, then his family moved to Moscow.
After graduating from school, Sotnik traveled a lot around the country, worked as a rafter on the Lena River, fished, was a photolaborator. He saw a lot and started writing stories. In 1938 he joined the creative association at the publishing house “Soviet Writer”, began to seriously study literary work.
The first stories brought Yu.Sotnik fame and recognition of readers. A fun fictionalist and fantasist, he invented funny
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(1914 - 1997)
He was born in Vladikavkaz, then his family moved to Moscow.
After graduating from school, Sotnik traveled a lot around the country, worked as a rafter on the Lena River, fished, was a photolaborator. He saw a lot and started writing stories. In 1938 he joined the creative association at the publishing house “Soviet Writer”, began to seriously study literary work.
The first stories brought Yu.Sotnik fame and recognition of readers. A fun fictionalist and fantasist, he invented funny and instructive stories for children, asserting their right to be as they are - mischievous, naughty, ready for the most unexpected antics. Childhood is a precious gift, the memories of which a person carries throughout his life. And it is important to direct in time in the right direction the boiling childhood energy, which sometimes leads to the most unpredictable actions. It is such unexpected situations that Sotnik describes in his works.
Inventing funny situations for the characters, the writer does not make fun of them at all. Humor and soft irony, sometimes a crafty smile of the author help readers better understand the motives of their actions. “The little heroes of the Centurion, because we constantly laugh at them, seem to us even more alive, real, real. As if we did not read about them in a book, but lived for a long time next to them, in one apartment or in one yard, wrote Boris Sarnov, a famous literary critic, about the heroes of Yuri Sotnik’s books.
For a long creative life, Yuri Vyacheslavovich wrote several dozen books.