Each reader is surely interested to discover some new authors, get acquainted with something new in literature, be surprised at new genres, ideas, thoughts. It is easier to do this than it seems, because literature, like everything in our dynamic world, does not stand still - it is developing, changing. New talents appear, unknown names, they gradually enter the circle of recognized authors, and their works occupy a worthy place on our bookshelf. One of such literary discoveries of the last decades was the Russian writer Nina Gorlanova. Do you want to get acquainted with her work? Start with our article.
Biography
Gorlanova Nina Viktorovna was born in the village of Perm Territory in 1947. Her parents worked on a collective farm. However, the girl decided not to take an example from them professionally. She successfully graduated from the philological faculty of Perm University, by the way, along with such famous writers as Leonid Yuzefovich and Anatoly Korolev.
Here, on the advice of her supervisor, Rimma Vasilievna Komina, the student began her creative career. However, after graduating from the university, she had to work completely not in her specialty - Nina Gorlanova became a laboratory assistant first at Perm Pharmaceutical and then at the Polytechnic Institute. But fate again brought her to her native faculty of philology, where she was engaged in teaching and research, the writer managed to work both in the library and in the orphanage. Since 2014, she found herself working with cancer children. At the Fyodor Petrovich Haas Perm Cancer Center, she teaches children to draw with their fingertips.
Creation
The indefatigable life force of Nina Gorlanova spills out in her work. She is the author of many novels (“His Bitter Strong Honey,” for example) and short stories (“Hebrew Teacher”). Gorlanova has especially many stories ("Beggars", "Love in Rubber Gloves"), which are published by collections. She even has a book of poems for children called "In the Children’s Land", published in 2018.
The first publication of the author took place in 1980, and a few years later she joined the Russian Union of Writers. Gorlanova, despite her respectful age, continues to work to this day - often in collaboration with her husband Vyacheslav Ivanovich Bukur. So, their joint work is the work "Roman parenting."
Awards and prizes
For her many years of work, Nina Viktorovna Gorlanova was recognized not only by ordinary readers, for whom she writes her works, her writers and specialists also appreciated her work. So, she became the laureate of such famous awards as the October magazine prize, the MA Sholokhov medal from the Russian Ministry of Culture, she even won the Special Prize of American Universities.
In 2014, Nina Gorlanova was awarded the honorary title "Man of the Year." It is worth noting that her works are translated into English, French, Spanish, and a documentary was even shot about the writer herself.
Painting
The creative personality of Nina Viktorovna Gorlanova manifested itself not only in authorship. Since 1993, she began to paint in addition to literary works. Often they look childishly naive, their stories are simple and often even simply absent, however, the emotionality of the paintings conveyed with the help of always bright, saturated, whole colors attracts the attention of even a sophisticated art lover.
Looking at the paintings of Gorlanova through the prism of her biography and literary work, you understand that despite the fact that at first they seem straightforward and unpretentious, they carry a deep, penetrating idea.