Tokmakova biography is brief

Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Irina Tokmakova, began to engage in literary activity after many years, and completely unexpectedly even for herself. It all started absolutely accidentally. With a business trip in Russia, a Swedish power engineer named Borgvist appears. Irina works with him as a translator. Their joint work allowed you to get to know each other better and make friends.

He was pleasantly surprised when he found out that this young girl is an ardent fan of Sweden folklore. He decided to make Irina a small gift and sent her a book in which children's Swedish songs were collected. This gift was intended for the son of Irina Tokmakova. She was happy to settled for the translation of these verses so that you could read them with her boy. She did not even have a thought to show her work to someone else.

But Irina seemed a little to Irina and without saying a word to his wife, he attributes her labors to one of the publishers. And since he himself was a creative person-a famous illustrator artist, he decorated them with his illustrations. I liked the translations very much in the publishing house and were soon printed. And in the year, the world saw the first book of Irina Tokmakova - "The bees of a round dance." Irina's first book became very popular and sold, and this was a great incentive to devote himself to literary activity.

Tokmakova works with enthusiasm and in the year releases the collection “Trees”, which includes the verses of her own composition. An illustrations for these works were also made by a husband - Lev Tokmakov. Irina writes for her favorite audience - for children. The writer has numerous stories for the children that she wrote in verses. Thanks to them, she became popular and recognizable - they had their own style, their own instructive story and morality.

Very often they are called parables. Her dramatic activity brought Irina's fame. According to the plays of Irina Petrovna, numerous performances in different Russian theaters were played. The landmark was the same - the children's audience, the most beloved and grateful. The children very much liked the production of the plays “Kukareku”, “Enchanted hoof”, “Star Masters”, “Morozko”, “Featy Star” and many others.

The bibliography of Irina Petrovna consists not only of poems and plays, it is also striking in the atypicality of some works. She is the author of teaching novels of the IGR, which help the child master the score, letter, reading skills. Tokmakov did not refuse to cooperate with other authors, she has several plays for children who were created together with S.

Prokofieva, a popular writer. Personal life, while still a student of Moscow State University, young Irina meets a young man - her future husband. His name was Lev Tokmakov and he was very talented, giving great hopes, an artist. A big feeling came to them right away, they realized that it was fate and hastened to officially formalize their relationship. Very little time passed and the family became more for one person - the Tokmakov’s spouses became the happy parents of the first -born Vasily.

The son inherited talent from his mother and also became a poet. It was a decent assessment of her activities in the literary field. Children's poems.