Voronin Alexander: biography and creativity

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

Lovers of art song and modern poetry usually do not gather at large concert venues, they like forest clearings and small halls. Voronin Alexander often meets with his admirers in city libraries and small interest clubs. Today he is known as a promising poet, playwright, prose writer and editor of the Sever edition.

Youth

Voronin Alexander was born in the Leningrad Region, in Gatchina, but later his family moved to the Krasnodar Territory. Sasha received his school education there. For himself, Alexander chose the profession of a military man. He studied at the Stavropol Military School and became a radio engineer. Voronin served in the missile troops. He was assigned to the city of Glukhov, Sumy region. Later, he only traveled from one military unit to another in this area. After Glukhov Alexander visited Lebedin and Romny. Voronin served in the armed forces for six years, after which he realized that he wanted something different from life.

Change of activity

It is rare to see a poet in a photo. Voronin Alexander, who became a reserve captain in 1989 and radically changed his life, decided to change his profession and entered the department of the Gorky Literary Institute, where poets were trained. However, very soon Alexander realized that it was difficult to write at the behest of professors. He leaves the institute in his second year and does not return there even for documents.

At the same time as trying to become a student, Alexander Voronin joins the April public organization, which included writers who supported the idea of perestroika and change of leadership in the USSR. In 1991, Alexander left for Karelia, and later moved to Petrozavodsk.

Poetry did not bring a lot of money, so Alexander went the way of an ordinary hard-working man. He first worked as an electronics engineer, and then changed several speci alties: he was a surveyor, a shooter for private security and an accountant-crawler in a housing department.

Voronin Alexander: creativity

Sometimes Alexander's work was connected with literature. Over the years, he worked as a journalist, editor of the poetry department, editor-in-chief of a literary almanac (the publication did not last long) and executive secretary of a publishing center. Now he has returned to his favorite work - he serves as the editor of the poetry department in the Sever online magazine and publishes his poems, which are popular not only in Russia, but also abroad.

In 2009 Voronin Alexander became the laureate of the internationalcompetition in Vienna, as well as the best poet in 2011. Now he often attends thematic competitions and speaks to his admirers in small clubs and libraries. There he reads poetry from his collections, and also sings songs with an acoustic guitar. Alexander recorded several albums of author's songs, which listeners love for their sincerity. Often he sets the verses of Pushkin, Gumilyov, Yesenin to the music of the classics.

Alexander collaborates with his fellow authors from Petrozavodsk. Together they record and compose albums, perform at events. As a poet, Voronin tries himself in different genres: from traditional poetry to haiku and other unusual forms.