Galina Shcherbakova: biography and creativity

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Galina Shcherbakova is a Soviet and Russian writer and screenwriter. She was born in the Donetsk region in Dzerzhinsk in Ukraine. Several school years of the future writer passed under the German occupation.

Biography

Galina Shcherbakova entered the State University of Rostov. Later, she and her husband moved to Chelyabinsk, transferred to the Pedagogical Institute. He finishes it and starts working as a teacher of Russian literature and language at school. In addition, she became a newspaper journalist. However, she left this job, she wanted to become a writer. Journalism, in its own opinion, takes a person aside. Until the end of the seventies, Galina Shcherbakova wrote, as she herself admitted, serious things. It was a great prose on global philosophical topics. However, these works all refused to be published.

One day she decided to write a love story. As a result, a story called "You never dreamed" was born. In 1979, in the autumn, this work was published by the magazine "Youth". The story was a huge success, which was an absolute surprise for the author. She began to receive a huge number of enthusiastic letters. In addition to the famous story, Galina Shcherbakova wrote over twenty books, including novels and short stories.

Cinema

Above, we examined how Galina Shcherbakova began her life and career. Films based on her books began to appear later. Shortly after its publication, Ilya Fraz decides to film the story “You never even dreamed of it”. The heroes in the original source are named Yulka and Roman. The story begins with a cult trip to the play. It is called "West Side Story", thus underlining the allusion to "Romeo and Juliet". The heroine in the film is named Katya. Ending softened.

Family

Galina Shcherbakova's husband - Alexander Sergeevich, writer, publicist, journalist. Alexander Rezhabek, the writer's son, died in 2013 in Israel. Daughter - Ekaterina Shpiller. Lives in Israel. Granddaughter - Alice Spiller. Lives in Moscow.

Bibliography

The novels of Galina Shcherbakova began to be published much later than the stories. The first of these was the work "Romantics and Realists", which appeared in 1997. The author also created such wonderful novels as "Ascent", "Women", "Wind", "Lizonka and the rest", "This too has passed", "The Mark of Lilith", "Three Loves" and others.

The stories of Galina Shcherbakova are no less interesting, among them: "You never dreamed", "The town remained on the right", "Ah, Manya", "Molotov's bed", "Mitina's love", "The actress and the policeman", “Spartans”, “Named Anna …”, “Which of you is a general, girls?”, “Indecent flowers”, “Who laughs last”, “At the feet”, “Duck”, “Boy and girl”, “Year of Alena”, “Time”, “History,which was not”, “Angels of the Dead Lake”, “Rap”, “Wall” and others. The author owns the following scripts: "Quarantine", "Let me die, Lord", "Personal matter".

Galina Shcherbakova also created many fascinating stories: “Living”, “Whims of life. The time of Gorbachev and before him”, “Emigration in Russian”, “The only one”, “Evening was”, “Uncle Chlorine”, “Details”, “Wonderful are your deeds, Lord…”, “Don't be afraid!”, “Joys”, "… All this should be sewn …", "Yokelemene", "A Story for Dima", "Reboot", "Three", "Grandmother and Stalin", "Allochka and the Dam", "Unfilmed Movie", "Daughters, Mothers", "The Door", "From Mallards", "The Role of the Writer", "Sentimental Flood", "Walked and Laughed", "Return", "Woman", "On the Mountain" and others.

The author wrote a number of amazing plays, including "Experiments on mice", "I guard the dog", "We play Vassa" and others. She also created the following works: "LOVE Story", "Army of Lovers", "Wooden Leg", "Avocado Bone", "Remember", "Door", "Desperate Autumn", "House", "Yashka's Children", "Way on Bodaibo”, “Murzavetsky’s Edda the Cat”, “The Case with Kuzmenko”, “The Skeleton in the Closet”, “How One Acme Got Covered”, “Death to the Sound of Tango”, “There Will Be Trouble”, “Tangerine Year”.