Nagishkin Dmitry Biography

Russian Soviet writer. Of the 52 years of his life, he lived in Siberia and in the Far East for 44 years. Born in Chita in the family of an agricultural engineer, so he “traveled” a lot. When the boy was ten years old, his father was sent to the construction of the Ayano-Nelkan tract. Here, in the lower reaches of Amur, D. Nagishkin met the indigenous inhabitants of the region.

He was struck by the unusual life and behavior of these people: their customs, life, bright clothes. Later, this first acquaintance will be reflected in the Amur tales created by him. The future writer began to work early: he sold newspapers, wrote posters, signs, was a porter, a theater statist, a reporter, an illustrator in the Far Eastern newspapers. A significant event in his creative biography was meetings in Khabarovsk with A.

Fadeev and A. Gaidar, ”said D. Nagishkin,“ helped me to correspond in me to write, which has long been vaguely wandering in me, causing a strange feeling. I set about stories about Dimka and Shurke, two boys, and their adventures on the Pacific coast. After reading this “work”, A. Fadeev wished me success. I don’t know how much my writings deserved this wishes, but, having heard him, I set to work with new strength.

” The first work in which D. Nagishkin declared himself as a serious artist was the adventure story “Quiet Bay” printed in the year. The first success inspired by the first success, D. Nagishkin begins serious work on a new story - “Bonivur’s heart”. It was first published in the year in the Far Eastern Almanac "at the turn." A later modified and expanded story turned into a novel in three parts.

In full, the novel “The Heart of Bonivur” was published in the publishing house “Soviet Writer” in the year. He withstood more than 30 publications, was translated into many languages. In the year, D. Nagishkin was accepted as members of the Union of Soviet Writers. By this time, he was already in another union - the Union of Soviet Artists. In the year, in Dalgiz, the first collection of Amur tales D.

Nagishkin “Boy Chokcho” with his own illustrations was published. The writer increasingly attracted the oral folk art of the indigenous peoples of the Amur region. Using traditional images, plots and language of folklore of the nationalities of the Amur, Dgishkin created independent original works. The book is called "Brave Azmun." Tales with his drawings come out in Moscow, Vladivostok, Irkutsk.

They are in one person, because I write for children and about children. ” Nagishkin moved to Riga. Here, the writer continues to work on fairy tales, writes the story “The City of the Golden Cockerel”, as well as an interesting theoretical work-research “Fairy Tale and Life”, where he gives his understanding of folklore. He moves to Moscow. Nagishkin died tragically.