Ruvim Frayerman
| Ruvim Isayevich Frayerman | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born |
September 22, 1891 Mogilyov, Russian Empire |
| Died |
March 28, 1972 (aged 80) Moscow, USSR |
| Period | 1924–1970s |
| Genre | Fiction, poetry, memoirs, travel writing |
| Subject | Children's literature, historical and ethnographical essays |
| Notable works | Wild Dog Dingo (1939) |
Ruvim Isayevich Frayerman (Рувим Исаевич Фраерман, September 22 [10 o.s.], 1891 in Mogilyov, Russian Empire, – March 28, 1972 in Moscow) was a Soviet writer, poet, essayist and journalist. Described as a major component of the Socialist romanticism, Frayerman is best remembered as a children's literature author, whose novel Wild Dog Dingo or the Tale of the First Love (1939) became a popular Soviet film in 1962.[1][2]
Biography
Ruvim Isayevich Frayerman was born in a poor Jewish family. In 1916 he enrolled into the Kharkov Technological Institute. A year later, as he was taking industrial practice at the Russian Far East the 1917 Revolution broke out. Frayerman joined the Red partizan unit fighting Japanese troops nearby Nikolayevsk, then as a komissar travelled through Siberia, helping to maintain the Bolshevik rule in regions inhabited by Tungus, Nivkh and Nanay people. Having settled in Yakutsk, he joined the staff of the local Lensky Kommunar newspaper.[1]
Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, whom Frayerman met in Novosibirsk, invited him to the newly formed Sibirskiye Ogni (Lights of Siberia) magazine, where his first short novel Ognyovka was published in 1924, followed by Na Mysu (At the Cape, 1925), Sobolya (Sables, 1926) and a large poem Na Rassvete (At the Dawn, 1926). Many of Frayerman's works of the time – notably, Vaska-Gilyak (1929), Afanasy Oleshek (1933) and The Misfortunes of An-Senen (1935) – dealt with the life of the native peoples of Siberia, whom the author formed strong bonds with. In 1939 Fraerman published his best-known novel Dikaya Sobaka Dingo ili Povest o Pervoy Lyubvi (Wild Dog Dingo or the Tale of the First Love) which in 1962 was adapted to a big screen by film director Yuly Karasik and has been seen by 21.8 million people since in the USSR.[1][3]
As the Great Patriotic War broke out, Frayerman joined the Red Army volunteer corps. In 1946 the novel Dalnee Plavaniye (Long Sea Voyage) came out, followed by The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Captain-Lieutenant Golovkin (1948, with P.Zaykin as a co-author), a biography turned into a thriller. Among Frayerman's later books were Lyubimy Pisatel Detei (Children's Best-Loved Author, 1954, about Arkady Gaidar) and Ispytanye Dushi (A Test for Soul, 1966), the collection of sketches and essays.[1][2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Рувим Исаевич Фраерман". www.hrono.ru. Retrieved November 1, 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Рувим Фраерман". www.livelib.ru. Retrieved December 1, 2013.
- ↑ "Wild Dog Dingo". kinomusorka.ru. Retrieved November 1, 2013.