Eduard Shim is a Soviet writer who mainly created works for children. Also known as playwright, screenwriter and poet.
On Shim's short stories about nature, more than one generation of young readers has grown. The heroes of these works are various animals and plants.
Biography of Eduard Yurievich Shim
The future writer was born on August 23, 1930 in Russia, Leningrad. Before the war, his mother Anna Yuryevna was engaged in the education of Shima, since the boy's father died in the year of his birth.
When the Great Patriotic War began, for safety reasons, Eduard Yurievich Shim, along with other children, was evacuated from Leningrad to the Kostroma region, to one of the local orphanages. The writer's mother remained in the city and probably died during the blockade.
Shim spent most of his childhood in an orphanage. Then he returned to his hometown, where he entered the architectural and art school as a applied painter. He worked in a design office. I also tried myself as a joiner, turner and driver.
In 1952, Eduard Yurievich Shim was drafted into the army. After serving, he did not return to his previous place of work, but got a job on the radio. This period can be considered the beginning of Shim’s writing career. His stories were published in popular children's publications.
The authorship of Eduard Yuryevich Shim also owns several works intended for a more adult audience. In addition, Shim is known as the author of scripts for films and children's cartoons, plays, poems and songs.
The writer died on March 13, 2006, having lived a long life of 75 years. Shim died in Moscow and was buried in the Mitinsky cemetery.
Creation
Throughout his life, Eduard Yurievich Shim has created dozens of short stories and short stories, six plays and about 20 scripts for cartoons and films.
Most of the writer's works are intended for children of preschool and primary school age. In his short stories and stories, Eduard Yurievich Shim acquaints young readers with the amazing world of nature and its many inhabitants, teaches a reasonable and careful attitude to the world around him. The main characters of his works are birds, insects, mice, bears, moose and other animals.
Despite the fact that Shim is mainly known as a children's writer, in his bibliography you can find several stories and stories oriented to adults. Such works include “Night at the End of the Month”, “When It Goes Off,” “Vanya sings songs.”
Among the plays created by Eduard Shim, there are “Queen and Seven Daughters”, “Wanted to Work”, “Call” and others.
According to the scripts, the author of which is Shim, many children's cartoons were shot (“Hamster the Silent”, “How the Puppy Learned to Swim”, “You Don't Be Afraid of Me”, “The Little Mouse and the Red Sun”), as well as feature films. For example, one of the most famous works of Eduard Shim was the script of the picture "Order: to cross the border."
Writer Awards
Eduard Yurievich Shim received his first award on August 22, 1980. This award was the Order of the Badge of Honor.
A few years later, in 1984, the writer was awarded the State Prize of the RSFSR named after the Vasilyev brothers, issued for creating the script for the film “Order: Cross the Border”.
In the same year, Shim received the Order of Friendship of Peoples.