Pivovarova and biography

Irina Pivovarova was born on March 3, in the year she graduated from the faculty of applied art of the Moscow Textile Institute, then worked as a costume designer at Mosfilm. There, she met her future husband - the artist Viktor Pivovarov, the family broke up to the city of the Pivovarovs made a huge contribution to children's literature - Irina unexpectedly began to write poems and stories for children, and her husband created illustrations for her works.

Irina herself often illustrated her poems. The first short stories were printed in the multiplication of Mosfilm. From the city of Pivovarov, she was regularly published in the magazines “Family and School”, “Funny Pictures”, “Murzilka”. In the city of her poems, stories and novels were incredibly popular among children in E and E years. You can’t write them, without being in a state of joyful excitement, elation, festivity, ”Irina Mikhailovna said about the creative process.

Here is her recipe for successful verses for children: “A children's poem is necessarily strict clear logic, the simplest words and certainly at least small, but discovery! You, as it were, reveal to the child the little secrets of the big world and at the same time surprise and rejoice. ” In the middle of the X - early xs, Irina Pivovarova wrote novels and stories that became the Golden Fund of Children's Humorism.

Infectingly funny, eccentric, psychologically reliable “Stories Lucy Sinitsyna, third -grade students”, the story “Three with a minus, or the incident of 5“ a ”,“ The old man in checkered trousers ”and the stories“ Once Katya and the Manechka ”brought to the children's literature of that time a special, different from N. Nosov and V. Dragunsky“ girls ”angle of view, style and language.

Favorite heroines Irina Mikhailovna are comic, almost clown couples. Practicalism and exalted ideals, authority and concession, selfishness and disinterestedness - the whole range of social and psychological conflicts of the modern school reflected this prose. Songs for poems by Irina Mikhailovna adorned the repertoire of many bardes performers, five cartoons were removed according to her works, and in the year, two years before the death of the poetess, the company "Melody" released the gramplast "only for children"-Irina Pivovarova herself read her poems to the listeners.

More than 15 books are written by Pivovarova for children. But they are for adults, parents, teachers. In the year, after a long and serious illness, during which she dictates to her son - Pavel Pepperstein - her only novel “Round Window”, Irina Pivovarova dies at the age of 47. Fantastic in creativity: in g.