Boris Ekimov is a well-known Russian prose writer whose wise works immerse the reader in the painfully familiar world of everyday everyday life with daily problems, an eternal crisis, constant struggle and humility.
Biography of Boris Yekimov
Boris - a native of Igarka (Krasnoyarsk Territory), was born in 1938, on November 19, in a family specializing in furs. A year later, after his father died, the family changed their place of residence to Irkutsk, then the Almaty region - the village of Ili, and in 1945 they settled in the city of Kalach-on-Don (Volgograd region).
The path to literature from the writer began from the time the boy learned to read. After school, the young man graduated from the Stalingrad Mechanical Institute, then worked at the factory, after - he served in the army. Before writing, he tried himself in various professions: an electrician at a factory, a fitter, a builder, a labor teacher in a rural school.
Writer debut
His debut as a novelist took place in 1965, after the publication of the story in the magazine "Young Guard". “Girl in a Red Coat” (1974) - the author’s debut book, published by the Sovremennik publishing house, immediately became an application for a personal niche in literature. Further, Russian prose was enriched with the books “Night of Healing”, “We arrived safely,” “At home,” “Officer,” and “The Last Hut.”
In 1976, Ekimov Boris Petrovich received membership in the Union of Writers of Russia, and three years later he graduated from the Higher Literary Courses.
Boris Ekimov: stories about a Russian person
Over the entire period of long literary activity, the Russian prose writer has written more than two hundred works that have been published in such publications as New World, Russia, Niva Tsaritsynskaya, Znamya, Our Contemporary. Most readers appreciated such works as “Shepherd's Star”, “Parental Home”, “For Warm Bread”, “Night of Healing”. The writer is deservedly considered a guide to the literary customs of the Don region, because his spiritual works truthfully describe the everyday life of a simple people. And such a topic is understandable to many, so Ekimov’s books are in great demand among the readership.
In the heroes of the author’s stories, each person recognizes himself and his being — alarming, with perestroika, eternal crises, fraternal wars, broken into fragments. Boris Ekimov neatly collects these fragments into a complete picture as evidence of what the Russian people have experienced and are experiencing in recent decades. This is especially pronounced in the works "No need to cry," "For warm bread," "Pinochet." In 2008, the Russian author was awarded the Solzhenitsyn Prize with the wording "For pain and acuteness in describing the lost state of the Russian province and displaying the indestructible dignity of the Russian people."
Sincerity in the works of Boris Ekimov
In his native Volgograd, the writer Boris Petrovich Ekimov is the most recognized author. His prose is full of wisdom and calm. The stories in a single unity show the world of the human soul and nature, and individual and minor events, like a colorful mosaic, add up to whole pictures of life. Boris Ekimov reveals the inner world of man through diverse manifestations of nature.
The collection "Awake Day" describes life episodes of everyday life in small towns and farm life. The stories described are based on the relationship between the elderly, adults and children, the interaction of human consciousness and surrounding reality. A city boy of six years old, having lived a year in the countryside, grows up, is imbued with love for a foal that has not yet been born and zeal for work. Here, grandfather takes his grandson to admire the river and forest, and nature is the best binder for these representatives of two generations. And the first grader is very worried that his mother laughed at him in front of a girl from a parallel class. The language of Boris Ekimov does not contain borrowings and dialectisms; the author writes in pure Russian, which is preserved in this form only on library shelves and in school textbooks.
The writer's works were translated into several languages: Italian, French, English, Spanish, German. And the story “Shepherd's Star” enriched the presidential library.