Tatyana Yankovskaya biography

Berezniki Perm region. Since the year I have been living in the United States, worked at universities and private companies, headed the laboratory at Honeywell Corporation. I have been engaged in literary activities since the year. In the city of Roman in stories, the series “Russian Roman XXI Century”. The book was nominated for the awards "Russian Booker", "New Literature", "Russian Prize".

In years in Olban, the capital of New York, organized performances by writers, poets, actors, bards I. Guberman, L. Ulitskaya, D. Rubin, V. Smekhov, V. Valina and others ”Collection of poetry Barda Katya Yarova, worked on the collection of her songs on three discs, held multimedia presentations dedicated to her, in New York, in New York. Boston, Washington, Philadelphia, Houston and other US cities, participated in the preparation and conduct of radio and television programs about it.

Laureate of the festival "Slavic traditions", international literary contests "There is a city that I see in a dream" and "Hero of our time", literary prize named after Yuri Kaplan. I live in New York. Author's site. Starting to read it, it is already difficult to tear yourself away. It is not for nothing that Tatyana Yankovskaya’s stories were recognized as one of the best at the international literary festival “Slavic traditions”, and she herself became the laureate of this festival.

” The publishing house made such words on the cover of the book and stories of Tatyana Yankovskaya, whose work is already well known to lovers of literature in Russia, Ukraine, the USA. But Tatyana is not only a wonderful prose writer, but also a charming, friendly, interesting interlocutor. Her discussions about life, literature, cinema will attract the attention of everyone who "looking at the moon, wants to see her reverse side." Vladimir Spector: “In the beginning there was a word ...” Your word today is on the pages of books, periodicals.

And what was the beginning of literary activity? They brought me to listen to the cassette with her songs, and they shocked me so much that I suggested organizing her performance at our place, although I hadn’t done anything like that before. I knew that after arriving in America on tour, Katya found cancer, she underwent a course of treatment and was interested in making money.

The CONCLUSE was wonderful, and the next day after its departure, I lost my job - then there was another crisis in America. Katya, with whom we immediately made friends, comforted me, said that everything in my life was not accidental: "Maybe you were fired so that you do something that you still do not know." I had time to help her with the arrangement of concerts, and as I introduced people to her work, anxiety grew up in me that these beautiful songs that were seizing in the world without a walk, someone simply assigned, and then go to, who is the author, because she has neither an audio album, nor books, there are no articles about her work.

I began to look for who would undertake to write about her. Everyone promised, no one wrote. I had to write myself. As soon as I finished, I was offered a place for the head of the laboratory in the company where I once worked. Katya soon returned to Moscow, not seeing the article. And two months later, a letter came from her: in the popular newspaper “Hour of Peak”, the publication “No Problem” appeared, but the soul remained in Russia ”, where Katina was attributed to some kind of emigrant living in the United States.

Katya wrote that my article would be very useful to her now "as a certain evidence from America." I sent an article to the “Continent” in Paris and immediately received a letter from Vladimir Maksimov that they would print it in the first issue of the year, and in the fall of GO the abbreviated version was published in the newspaper New Russian Word.

Already when Katya was not she died in December, I remembered her words, and it suddenly dawned on me that I was fired to write an article about her. Then I continued to write not only about her, then prose was added to essays. It so happened that I had to engage in the publication of the collection of Katya Poetry, the work of the chosen songs of her songs on three discs, and here our conversations about creativity, about literature, and her poetry were very useful.

She sent me everything that she wrote in recent years. Six months after arriving in Houston, on the eve of the year, I walked home along the bridge across the canal, dividing in half the roadway, and the African American was walking towards me and smiled affably. I remember, I still thought: “Here, everyone says that they are dangerous, but this one is not terrible.” Already passing by, the young man rushed back my bag with force, only the pens remained in my hand, ran through the road and rushed along the lawn along the highway.

And I rushed after him, screaming: “Throw, bastard! There is still little money there! Then I realized that he did not understand, and switched to English, which was then very scarce then. To his honor I must say that although he possessed all the qualities of black athletes, I did not lag behind. The cars stopped - probably these people never saw that a little white woman was chasing a huge black man, and even with screams in an incomprehensible language.

Everyone rushed to me, Galled: “Wait! He is armed! And I came from the country with another mentality, other upbringing.Someone called the policeman, he interviewed the witnesses and took me home. And a few hours later we were called from the bookstore nearby that my bag was thrown to their door. The thief showed nobility without taking anything but money and New Year's gift - maybe out of respect for my sprint abilities?

He was gone two years ago, and I really lack conversations with him. He was an artist to the brain of bones. Gene is an example of stamina and creative longevity. A month before his birthday and two months before his death, he talked about the plan of his future film about four abstractions: music, visual arts, dance, poetry. Jin spoke with inspiration, sitting in a wheelchair at our table.

How his only sighted eye revived! The kidneys did not work for him, he was connected to the peritonal dialysis apparatus at night. On the example of Gin, a change in attitude to culture and education in the United States can be seen. If 15 years ago his three-part film about the emergence of oral speech went to the prime time on the PBS channel, and many still remember him, then the same film about the writing that he finished briefly before his death was shown by several provincial channels at night and laid on the shelf.

This film was also made by order of PBS, but in the end they stopped funding, and a seriously ill director wrote countless letters to different instances, begging the money to complete the film. I had a chance to meet with interesting compatriots, because after I organized several concerts of Katya Yarova, in years I began to call me requests to organize performances in Olbani, where we then lived, who came on tour of writers, bards, actors.

The first swallow was Igor Guberman. Having met me, he said: "And we are colleagues: you are a chemist, and I worked for chemistry." He was happy when he saw his beloved Rozanov on the book shelf, he said that the first time in America was in the house where there were his books, and asked him to be put to sleep in the same room with Rozanov. Guberman discovered Victor Frankl for us, and we - Mikhail Weller, and he praised the "Stories of Nevsky Prospekt." In those years, we regularly communicated with Veniamin Smekhov, he gave us several concerts.

A man of star glory, laughs were not at all infected with a star disease, a very pleasant person in communication. He was the first to call us after the attacks on September 11 to New York, where we moved a week before to find out if everything was in order. I will never forget this. It was a terrible morning, at the first moment the feeling arose that the war had begun.

After working in the presidential election campaign, I re -read Russian classics, follow the work of the authors, with whom I am familiar with personally or virtually. In literary magazines, in addition to the talent of the authors, the taste in the selection of materials, the respect of traditions, the lack of aggressive radicalism are important to me. These are the St.

Petersburg Neva, where I had publications, and the Folioverso network project edited by Alexei Mashevsky. But my acquaintance with magazines is limited. Press, including virtual, products are now so much that it is difficult to navigate. From my youth I have my own system, which can be dubbed “reference chains”. Suppose I really liked Akutagawa. I read which authors influenced him.

I read them, find new "recommendations". Or, reading about the Japanese director of Kobayashi, whose film “The conditions of human existence” I consider one of the best in world cinema, I find out that he began to work in the RAM studio. I look at everything that I can find, and open the world of simple human relations, in which there is so much poetry, love, kindness, soft humor and muffled drama.

RAM, in turn, influenced some modern European directors. So I find close authors for myself. I really love the cinema, back in Leningrad I was a member of the film clubs at the youth cinemas, where they arranged closed views of modern films, and Kinematographer, where they watched and discussed world classics. The new cinema was also shown there - for example, Otar Ioseliani brought the newly captured Listopad.

To become a member of this club, it was necessary to go through an interview and go to the candidates for a year. Recently, on a retrospective of Soviet cinema in New York, they showed "I am walking around Moscow." Everything in it is good, starting with a beautiful scenario, it is a pity that in Russia now they are not doing anything like it. The films close to him in the spirit are shot by Frenchwoman Anyue Zhaaui.

Zhaii, like the Italian Soldini, works in the traditions of humanistic cinema, which does not prevent them from receiving bonuses at prestigious international festivals. As the wits say in New Russia, the “loot” defeats evil. The victory of the "dough" on the movie tide is a metaphor for the situation in Russian cinema. But Rossiyskaya Gazeta holds the Internet Dube DV Internet, which will demonstrate completely different results.

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