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Shtern Boris Gedalevich (books by this author were reprinted in English, Spanish, Swedish and other languages of the world) is known in the post-Soviet space as a Russian-speaking author who wrote in the style of "literary fiction".
The author of "Psychosis" (Stern's first published story) was born in 1947. He celebrated his birthday on February 14.
Stern Boris: biography
A native of Kyiv, he was born at the very beginning of Valentine's Day - at 00:30, during the period of Stalin's reforms. This historical event, in his opinion, influenced his future fate - there was always not enough money.
Stern Boris Gedalevich spent about seventeen years of his life in Odessa, where he lived, studied and worked.
Stern's professional career began after he graduated from Odessa University (Department of Philology). One of the first professions mastered by Boris Gedalevich was an artist in a cinema.
Awards
only the Strugatsky brothers and Stanislav Lem had such a title).
In different years, Boris Gedalevich Stern was awarded domestic literary awards: "Start", "Wanderer", "Bronze Snail", "Chumatsky Way", "The Great Ring".
Stern Boris: books
In 1971, Boris Stern dared to show his works to Boris Strugatsky and received from him an approving review and advice to publish his works. It wasn't easy: Stern was in the category of people who thought it was better to do less work and focus as much as possible on the quality of work.
The author's first book is called "Whose Planet?" It was published in 1987: Boris Gedalevich Stern reached his fortieth birthday at the time of its publication. "Whose planet?" is a collection of original fantasy stories praising the best human qualities and ridiculing vices.
The second book of the writer - "The Fish of Love" - was published in 1991. This includes several new short stories and the fantastic novel "Dinosaur Notes" - the biography of the editor-in-chief of a popular science publication who made a deal with the devil …
Interestingly, Stern himself did not consider science fiction to be literature, calling this genre a reflection of the author's attitude.
Boris Stern wrote not only fantastic stories - sometimes he published realistic works. Boris Stern is also the author of fairy tales and satirical stories, novels and poetry.
In 2002, when Boris Stern was no longer alive,AST and Stalker publishing houses published his Ethiopia with the latest amendments by Stern himself and supplemented the publication with the memoirs of E. Lukin. In the same year, the book "Tales of the Serpent Gorynych" was published - a collection of works included in the cycle of the same name, supplemented by Stern's correspondence with B. Strugatsky and the last interview with Boris Stern.
The Adventures of Bel Amor with a foreword by Boris Strugatsky and an autobiography by Boris Stern were republished in the same 2002. This book also includes the never-before-published novel Go, Stable!.
The book “The second of July of the fourth year. The latest materials for the biography of Anton P. Chekhov" was published by the publishing house "Svinyin and Sons" in 2005.
Interesting details
Shtern Boris Gedalevich has always been especially wary of "business writers". So he christened the first Soviet "infobusinessmen", wagonloads of releasing the fruits of their creative thought into the world. Stern himself never tried to trade his own works and considered this occupation unworthy for a writer.
When the writer was still a youngster, an Odessa gypsy, who "traded" in the Moldavanka region, foretold his short life - up to 63 years. Such a "forecast", in the words of Stern himself, completely satisfied him. Since then, the writer no longer turned to fortune-tellers, but he knew that in 2010 he would have to "collect things." However, death overtook him much earlier - in 1998.
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