Lev Rakhlis
Lev Rakhlis | |
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| Native name | Лев Я́ковлевич Ра́хлис |
| Born | January 25, 1936 Luhyny, Luhyny Raion, Kiev Oblast, Soviet Union |
| Occupation | Poet, Playwright, Journalist, Educator |
| Language | Russian |
| Nationality | Soviet, Russian, American |
| Years active | 1958-present |
| Website | |
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Lev Yakovlevich Rakhlis (Russian: Лев Я́ковлевич Ра́хлис; born January 25, 1936 is a Russian children’s poet.
Biography[edit]
Childhood and Youth[edit]
Born in January 25 1936 in the town of Luhyny, Luhyny Raion, Kiev Oblast (now Zhytomyr Oblast) in the Soviet Union.
After war broke out on the Eastern Front in 1941, Rakhlis was evacuated to the village of Kundirovka in the Orenburg (then the Chkalov) Oblast, not returning until 1944. Although Rakhlis completed his highschool education in his hometown, his family would later move to Chelyabinsk where he continued his studies at the Chelyabinsk school № 41.
In 1952 his parents returned to Ukraine, and in 1954 he began to study at the Chelyabinsk Pedagogical Institute, where he lived in college dormitories with fellow students.
In 1957 Rakhlis met his future wife Tamara on a Kolkhoz in the Chesmensky District.
Early Literary Career[edit]
In 1958 Rakhlis published his first collection of lyrical poems in the popular university newspaper Молодой учитель (Molodoi uchitel’ - The Young Teacher). [1]
After graduating from university in 1959, he worked at the № 2 Chelyabinsk boarding school, then as an editor at the railroad workers’ House of Culture, where he wrote plays for various events and celebrations. He later went on to work at the Chelyabinsk State College of Arts and Culture where he taught scriptwriting. For 10 years he was head of the department of theatre and events.
'Express' Literary Assocation[edit]
From 1964 to 1985, Rakhlis headed the literary association ‘Express’ within the railway workers’ House of Culture. ‘Express’ was a product of the Khrushchev Thaw. The association attracted young writers who disliked the literary restrictions imposed by the Union of Soviet Writers.
Unusually independent for its time, ‘Express’ was made up mostly of students, artists, engineers and teachers. ‘Express’ disbanded at the beginning of Gorbachev’s Perestroika.
Teaching[edit]
From 1972 to 1993 he worked at the Chelyabinsk Institute of Culture and Art. At the beginning of 1975 Rakhlis became responsible for the structure and content of the scriptwriting programme.
Rakhlis made many developments in his methodology as his work turned in a more practical, educational direction. Children were often present at his literary meetings and he began to realise that they responded to a different approach to learning about theater creativity. He went on to publish the short guide “fun warm-ups in the classroom”, which included examples of fifty such activities for children.
The Childrens’ Games Library[edit]
At the beginning of the 1990s, in collaboration with fellow poet Nikolai Shilov, Rakhlis helped create the Childrens’ Game Library for Educators and Elementary School Teachers.
In 1993 he moved to Atlanta, USA where he worked first as a teacher in a school, then a university lecturer before becoming a journalist.
In 1994 Rakhlis was awarded an honorary diploma for his poem Vosmaya Rana (The Eighth Wound) by the International Society of Pushkin Scholars.
Since 1995 he has been the chief editor of the Russian-language newspaper Russian House in Atlanta, USA.
Rakhlis is married with a daughter, son-in-law, granddaughter and a cat called Fiona.
Bibliography[edit]
Articles and Interviews[edit]
- …Меня нет, но я возможен Interview with Mikhail Epstein (in Russian)
- Вот приходит Юлий Ким… Interview (in Russian)
Notes[edit]
Links[edit]
- Poet lives in two worlds CNN Interview
- Lev Rakhlis, Educator(in Russian)
References[edit]
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