Boris Vladimirovich Zakhoder (russian: Бори́с Влади́мирович Заходе́р; 9 September 1918,

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, Bessarabia — 7 November 2000,

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, translator and children's writer. He is best known for his translations of ''

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'', '' Mary Poppins'', ''

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'' and other children's classics.

Biography

Boris Zakhoder was born to a

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ish family in

(now Cahul,

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) and grew up in Moscow. His father was a lawyer, a graduate of Moscow University, and his grandfather was the first crown rabbi of

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. After he graduated from high school in 1935, Zakhoder studied at

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and

Kazan University Kazan (Volga region) Federal University (russian: Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет, tt-Cyrl, Казан (Идел буе) федераль университеты) is a public research uni ...

until in 1938 he entered Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. His studies were interrupted when he was drafted to

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and later to

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. He then returned to the institute and graduated in 1947. He started publishing

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s and fairy tales for the children the same year and became popular as a children's writer. His work on translations of

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is much less known. Zakhoder started publishing translations of children's literature in 1960 with A.A. Milne's ''Winnie-the-Pooh''. His version was also the basis for the Soviet 1969 animated film ''

'' and its sequels. Zakhoder was awarded the Russian State Prize for his work. One of his children's books is a collection of stories called "The Hermit and the Rose."

References

Zakhoder's Biography
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B. V. Zakhoder
a website dedicated to Boris Zakhoder (in

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Zakhoder, Boris Vladimirovich
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