There is one Chinese proverb which, translated into Russian, means: "Two horses ride faster than one." So, you can’t say better about the life of the writer Svetlana Lavrova. Why? Because the author skillfully combines two main activities: medicine and writing. And she does it very well.
Biography of Svetlana Lavrova
A well-known children's writer was born in the industrial city of Sverdlovsk on January 23, 1964. According to the author himself, it was an ordinary city, boring, smoky from dozens of factory pipes. She wrote her first book when she was 4 years old in large block letters: "Why is it, Earth?" And she replied that the land was not to be trampled by people, but to grow apple trees, peaches, melons, watermelons and much more, tasty, according to the girl.
The future author loved to write as a child. Of course, this was not a story, but ordinary school essays, which were always better than classmates. She also loved to read. In the beginning there were fairy tales, children's stories. And then the books are more serious: Pushkin, Bulgakov. By the way, the novels and novels by Mikhail Bulgakov remain beloved by the writer even now. But when she and her grandmother chose a profession, they stopped at medicine. After school, Svetlana went to study at the Sverdlovsk State Medical Institute at the pediatric faculty. Then she worked for several years in an infectious diseases hospital.
The medicine
Now Svetlana Arkadyevna Lavrova is a neurophysiologist, candidate of medical sciences, works at the Interterritorial Neurosurgical Center of Yekaterinburg. She always explains how the profession of a neurophysiologist differs from the profession of a neurosurgeon: the surgeon performs the operation, and the physiologist monitors the monitor so that important areas are not affected during the operation. His responsibilities include examining the patient before and after surgery. Svetlana Arkadyevna defended her thesis in the specialty, has several patents for the invention of medical devices, several dozen publications on neurophysiology. She is a high level professional.
Creation
How did the creative career begin? The author himself recalls that she took up the story for the first time when she and her husband were on the Kola Peninsula, where the sun did not so often please the inhabitants with its warmth and light. To dispel boredom and despondency, the husband proposed to write her a fairy tale. Svetlana did it perfectly. True, at first she composed fairy tales for her children, Alexandra and Anastasia, writing them down in a notebook in neat block letters: so that the girls could read them on their own. Very soon, fairy tales became part of the life of the future writer. Although combining medicine and writing, as the author admits, is not easy.
First publications
The first book was published only 10 years later, in 1997. It was called Traveling Without a Camel. And in 2001, thanks to her friend Olga Kolpakova, the book “Pirate of the Table Sea” was published in the Moscow publishing house “Drofa”. Now, having already become a master, the writer collaborates with several publishers of the country. Her work has two directions: works of a popular scientific nature and fiction.
Cognitive literature
Most of the informative books of Svetlana Arkadevna Lavrova, a true patriot, are devoted to the Urals. The publishing house "White City" published such works by the writer as "Slavic mythology", "By country and continent", "Riddles of pets." In total, about 40 such books have been published. They are written in a lively and accessible language, illustrated by famous artists.
We look through one of these books, for example, "Ural - the pantry of the Earth." Small articles about all the secrets and riddles of the Urals are written simply, fascinatingly and understandably for curious little readers. Here, and about the mammoths that once inhabited the Urals, and about the peoples who lived and now live in the mountains, and about the countless riches of the region. Articles are accompanied by vivid photographs and illustrations. The book can be called an encyclopedia on the history of the Ural mountains, starting from ancient times.
The author also owns several entertaining books about the Russian language. Among them is the work of Svetlana Lavrova "Castle of Count Orthograph". In it, the author surprisingly manages to combine the incompatible: the rules and the game, which makes reading fascinating.
Fairy tales
The second group of books by Svetlana Lavrova is fairy tales or fairy tales. In one of her interviews, the writer admitted that in real life she had few adventures, maybe that is why she decided to invent them herself. The author’s works contain true magic characters: wizards, sorcerers, princes, dragons, and even Baba Yaga. True, she lives in an ordinary communal apartment ("Castle between the Worlds", 2006). That is why these works are interesting: in them magic characters live next to ordinary people, in our time or in the recent past. The author says that her tales are intended mainly for girls. But the boys read them with great interest. One of the most famous: "A governess for the wizard's children is required."
Three fairy tales collected in the book are able to captivate not only children, but also their fathers and mothers, grandparents. Agree, an interesting story can distract from all everyday problems, cheer up. And what can unite children and parents even more than a fairy tale not read together?
Lavrova’s works invite readers to a wonderful magical land, for example, to sail across the Mediterranean Sea in the book “Seven Underwater Cats” (2007), or to a magical island reminiscent of Crete in the fairy tale “An Island That Is Not Available” (2008), or to the ancient city of Arkaim. Svetlana Lavrova invites us there along with the heroes of the book "Arkaim. Three days until the end of the world" (2011).
And this country is easy to imagine, not only thanks to the author’s easy syllable, but also to beautiful illustrations. Among the artists working with the writer are the honored painter of Belarus Valery Slauk, and well-known fairy tale illustrator Marina Boguslavskaya, children's artist Andrei Lukyanov. Svetlana Arkadyevna also loves to draw, for some books she created illustrations herself and did this, as the writer admits, with great pleasure.
The author also has detective stories created in collaboration with the writer Olga Kolpakova. These works are intended for both adults and young readers.
Recognition of the talent of the author
Svetlana Lavrova is the owner of many literary awards and prizes:
- National Children's Prize "Cherished Dream" for the book "Cat until Tuesday", 2007
- The Book of 2013
- The Order of Good and Light and Aelita-13, 2013
- “Books of the Year” for the novel “Where the Cockerel Rides”, 2014
The writer is a regular member of the jury of the Krapivinsky Prize, and he does a lot to support young authors.
Reviews
Svetlana Lavrova often meets with her young readers, schoolchildren and their parents, answers questions and reads her books on the radio.
Readers respond to her work with great love. Both children and adults like fascinating encyclopedias, educational magic stories, detective stories. Little readers, judging by the reviews of her work, get a lot of pleasant emotions, learn new things. Her books even put on children's performances. Svetlana Arkadyevna told in an interview that one girl even memorized a whole fairy tale in order to tell her the audience. So maybe you should open the book of the Ural writer and start reading?