Background
Raksha Irina Evgenievna was born on 19 November, 1938 in Moscow, Russian Federation. She was born in Moscow, in the family of employees.
publicist screenwriter translator prose writer
Raksha Irina Evgenievna was born on 19 November, 1938 in Moscow, Russian Federation. She was born in Moscow, in the family of employees.
Irina Evgenievna spent her childhood on the outskirts of the capital in Ostankino, where she studied at secondary and music schools. In 1954, the parents' divorce was the reason for her departure with the train of the first-virgin land in Altai, to the newly formed grain farm "Urozhayny". There, in the foothills, near the village of Srostki, on the banks of the Katun, her youth has passed. There she graduated from the ten-year school and the school of machine operators.
Being not only a prose writer, but also a screenwriter, Irina Evgenievna writes screenplays for feature films shot at the Mosfilm, Belarusfilm, and Ekran film studios. She is also engaged in translations. As an art historian, she is publishing articles and monographs on artists. M. Grekov and A. Plastova, J. Raksha and I. Levitan, etc. Irina Raksha is the winner of a number of literary awards, including the "Golden Pen" of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Prize named after Yesenin (2001) and Shukshina (2002), has government awards.