Background
He is best known for his translations of Winnie-the-Pooh, Mary Poppins, Alice"s Adventures in Wonderland and other children"s classics. Boris Zakhoder was born to a Jewish family in Kagul (now Cahul, Moldova) and grew up in Moscow.
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Boris Zakhoder
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Education
Maxim Gorky Literature Institute.
Career
After he graduated from high school in 1935, Zakhoder studied at Moscow Aviation Institute, Moscow and Kazan University until in 1938 he entered Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. His studies were interrupted when he was drafted to Soviet-Finnish War and later to World World War World War II He then returned to the institute and graduated in 1947. He started publishing poems and fairy tales for the children the same year and became popular as a children"s writer
His work on translations of Goethe is much less known.
Zakhoder started publishing translations of children"s literature in 1960 with Associate of Arts Milne"s Winnie-the-Pooh. His translation of Lewis Carroll"s Alice"s Adventures in Wonderland is especially notable as it became more popular than previous notable translations by several well-known writers, including Samuil Marshak and Vladimir Nabokov.
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November 7, 2000 (aged 82) -
Nationality
Russia Soviet Union