Biography I am akim

Parents loved books, music, played musical instruments, flute, guitar, mandolin. When guests came in the house, old romances sounded. Father, Lazar Efrailovich, was an inventor and chief engineer at the factory, played a violin and flute well. And my mother worked as a librarian, loved to sing, accompanying herself and children on a guitar or mandolin. Yakov loved literature very much, read a lot, played well on the button accordion and harmony, was fond of playing the drums.

He wrote the first poem when he studied in the second grade. When Yakov turned 10 years old, the family moved to Moscow. At school, he attended a dramatic circle, edited a school wall newspaper. Having graduated from the ninth grade, Akim went to the camp to work as a pioneer leader. A blow to the young man was the death of his father, who served in the air defense of Moscow and died from the air raid of the Nazis in the year.

After the end of the military school of signalmen, in the fall of the year, as part of the Guards Moscow Komsomol Regiment, Yakov Akim served on the Voronezh, Don fronts, was the commander of the mortar division department, participated in the Battle of Stalingrad, wrote poems for combat army leaflets.

Yakov Lazarevich went through the whole war, awarded orders and medals. In the year, he became a student of the Moscow Institute of Thin Chemical Technology, where he studied for three years. And then he began to write poetry. Yakov Akim sent his first literary experiments to the children's poet Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak, who supported his desire to write for children and became a mentor.

The first poem "First Snow" Akim wrote for the little daughter. First snow! And then a book was published, which became the visiting card of the poet - “Inappropriate”. His good verses sang friendship, willingness to come to a friend to help in difficult times and share everything that you have. I’ll break the apple in half, I will divide the apple with my friend.

” Raise the mood and give the feeling of the holiday. Yakov Lazarevich Akim is not only a poet, but also the author of prosaic works. His story is the fairy tale: “The teacher is so and his colorful school” is written in memory of his father. At a school built from multi-colored singing bricks in a green meadow, covered with yellow dandelions, the teacher also teaches children to simple and human things: to be honest, kind, to appreciate friendship, to be able to serve the voices of birds and grass.

In a delicate, unobtrusive manner, Jacob Akim helps the heroes change for the better. In the book “The Adventures of Gvozdichkin”, the author introduces us to the life of the boy Vasya, who is offended, decides that he does not need, but having survived various troubles, he understands that a person needs his relatives and friends for a happy life. In the year, the collection of Akim “Dragonfly and Lemonad” was published, which contains stories for children.

Yakov Lazarevich is also known as a screenwriter. He collaborated with the studios "Diafilm" and "Soyuzmultfilm". For the movie "The Fate of the Drummer" in the year, he wrote "The Drum of the Drummer, and for the studio" Soyuzmultfilm "created the script for the cartoon" Firefly ". Yakov Akim is also known as a poet-translator. He introduced readers to the children's verses of the Moldavian poet Grigore Viere, translated into Russian the Italian children's poet Gianni Rodari.

For the book of selected translations “I hurry to a friend”, in which twenty -five poets are represented, he was awarded the International Literary Prize of the year in the year Publishing House “Children's Literature” released the “golden volume” of Ya. Akim “Girl and Leo” in the series “Selected works for children and youth. Golden Library. " The children's library of the city of Galich of the Kostroma region has been named after the writer since the year.

The books of the poet Jacob Akim, which you can read in our library: 1. Akim Y. Fun to me! Where do you go autumn? Contacts of Lugansk, st. Sovetskaya 78 1st floor main mail: Biblioteka38 BK.