Evgenia Pasternak and Andrei Zhvalevsky biography. Inspiration from your own children

May 29 from 11:30 am to 5:00 pm, spacious halls of the "Social Structures"(St. Baltiyskaya, 5, m.Sokol) invite teenagers and parents to the festival Teens Out Day. You can read the detailed program of the entire event.

As part of this get-together, we invite you to a meeting with the writer duet A. Zhvalevsky and E. Pasternak.

You can ask your questions, get answers, just chat with interesting people. Buy new books by authors or replenish your library with missing ones. Get an autograph and, of course, take pictures with live writers.

Biography of Zhvalevsky / Pasternak

Andrei Zhvalevsky and Evgenia Pasternak - creative union Belarusian writers which has been in existence for ten years. Both co-authors are physicists by education and live and work in Minsk.

The co-creation of Andrei Zhvalevsky and Evgenia Pasternak began in 2004 with a cycle of ironic romance novels"M + F", which were repeatedly reprinted, and also became the basis for the film of the same name, shot by "Central Partnership" (starring Nelly Uvarova and Grigory Antipenko). Other stories of this genre also found their reader: “I deserve more”, “About carrot off / on”, “Like a cat with a dog”.

However, the real success came to the co-authors when they started writing books for children and teenagers: “The True Story of Santa Claus”, “Time is always good”, “Gymnasium No. 13”, “Moskvest”, “Shakespeare never dreamed”, “I want to school", "Death to Dead Souls", "February 52", "Hunting for a basilisk", "Let's run away from here". All these books are of constant interest to readers and publishers, and have been awarded numerous awards. The rights to translate "Time is always good" were bought by the Italian publishing house "Giunti", negotiations are underway on the film adaptation of this story.

Andrei Zhvalevsky and Evgenia Pasternak is a creative union of Belarusian writers that has existed for ten years.

The co-creation of Andrei Zhvalevsky and Yevgenia Pasternak began in 2004 with a cycle of ironic love novels M + F, which were repeatedly reprinted, and also became the basis for the film of the same name, shot by Central Partnership (starring Nelli Uvarova and Grigory Antipenko). Other stories of this genre also found their readers: “I deserve more” and “About carrot off / on”. Released last story"Like a cat with a dog" was included in the long list of the Belkin Prize in 2012.

However, the real success came to the co-authors when they started writing books for children and teenagers: “The True Story of Santa Claus”, “Time is Always Good”, “Gymnasium No. 13”, “Moskvest”, “Shakespeare never dreamed of”, “I want to school", "Death Dead souls”, “February 52”, “Let's run away from here!”, “While I'm on the edge” and others. All these books are of constant interest to readers and publishers and have been awarded numerous awards. The rights to translate "Time is always good" were bought by the Italian publishing house "Giunti", negotiations are underway on the film adaptation of this story. A performance based on the story "I want to go to school" was staged.

Belarusian writer duo Yevgenia Pasternak and Andrei Zhvalevsky reveal a terrible secret to their readers

One of the most popular and beloved authors for teenagers Evgenia Pasternak and Andrey Zhvalevsky recently released new book"Siamese". Andrei and Evgenia are a long-established and successful tandem not only in their homeland - in Belarus, but also in Russia. On the eve of the old New Year, we decided to remember with them about Santa Claus and magic, because they know firsthand about him.

Yevgenia Pasternak and Andrei Zhvalevsky is a creative union of Belarusian writers that has existed for almost 15 years. Vitaly Pivovarchik

Do you have a book called The True Story of Santa Claus? Is there evidence for the existence of Santa Claus?

Pasternak and Zhvalevsky: Firstly, the undoubted proof of the existence of Santa Claus are birds and ohli. It was they who told us about Santa Claus. You won't suspect them of cheating, will you? Second, the book itself is proof. From time to time she seemed to write herself. Without the intervention of Santa Claus, this would not have happened.

IN " true story"engineer Sergei Ivanovich Morozov, walking on Christmas Day before the New Year, 1912, with his wife Masha in St. Petersburg, falls under magical snow, which, it turns out, falls here once every 50 years. Without knowing it, the spouses become the next for half a century, the performers of New Year's children's dreams - Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden.If these heroes were you, what would scare you the most in this new role?

Pasternak and Zhvalevsky: Responsibility. What if we offend someone? Do we misunderstand? Forget about some gift? Swap gifts? And the most difficult thing is to figure out which desires a person has are real, and which ones ... well, invented. Here we would not have coped without birds and ohley.

Have there been miracles in your life? Can you remember any magical story?

Pasternak and Zhvalevsky: There were many things. It was predicted in 2007 that Diagonal Lane (Oruzheynik Fedorov Street) would be dug up on Christmas Day 2012 - and sure enough, they dug it up. In the book "Time is always good" they wrote that in 2018 there will be phones that fold into a tube - and they did.

But the most magic story happened when writing "Moskvest". There is an episode where our heroes in the 15th century depict a wedding in a church and allegedly turn into doves. The church was found on the Internet - on Pushechnaya Street. It was already standing in the 15th century. And in the epilogue, they decided to play a trick: they wrote that nothing had changed in Moscow as a result of time travel, only a monument to two pigeons appeared near the church on Pushechnaya. Naturally, we invented the monument. And suddenly it turns out that there is a monument! Two doves!!! A hundred meters from the same church!!! We went there on purpose, touched these pigeons with our hands ... and began to approach predictions more responsibly.

Speaking of "Moskvest" - a book on the history of Moscow. Do you plan to write the history of Minsk?

Pasternak and Zhvalevsky: We don't plan history, "Moskvest" was very difficult for us, we are physicists by education and are accustomed to the exact sciences. And the story turned out to be so ... elusive and so variable that we are not yet ready to plunge into it again. But we wrote the story "Siamese", in which we confess our love for modern Minsk.

The most difficult thing for Santa Claus is to figure out which desires a person has are real, and which ones are just invented. Gifts are a big responsibility

Yes, there are a lot of Belarusian words. Your heroes are in love not only with each other, but also with Minsk. Would you like to publish a book in Belarusian?

Pasternak and Zhvalevsky: We want very much. As practice shows, if we want something, then nothing can stop us. So it's just a matter of time.

All books of this tandem arouse the constant interest of readers and publishers.

In one interview, you said: we ourselves have not yet come out of adolescence, we tell everyone that we are 14 years old. But if in New Year one could make a wish and go back at least a day in the past. Which day would you prefer?

Pasternak and Zhvalevsky: We would be afraid to interfere in our own past. Is that to see how it really was - in our adolescence. Because we remember our feelings, some events ... we would like to see how it all looked from the outside. But we cannot choose a specific day.

They say that husband and wife are one Satan. How about in a creative tandem? It happens that you write and understand that you look at things differently, everyone pulls the blanket over himself, what then to do?

Pasternak and Zhvalevsky: It happens that we understand differently, but no one pulls the blanket anywhere. Apparently, we have a very large one, enough for both.

Evgenia, do you use any female tricks?

Parsnip: What for? If any tricks were needed to work together, it would all be over long ago. All these "tricks" are actually types of manipulation, and I can't stand it.

If you had the opportunity to meet one of the departed children's writers, who would you choose? What would be an important question?

Pasternak and Zhvalevsky: Oh ... it's better to read writers than to talk to them ... But if you choose, then, probably, with Astrid Lindgren. We would have asked her if it was hard to make a revolution in children's literature. And how it was received by critics and readers. Did she think she would become a classic?

And the Grimm brothers would have been asked just one question: "How do you write together?"

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Analysis of the artistic, educational and aesthetic value of the books "Time is always good", "Moskvest", "Gymnasium No. 13" by A. Zhvalevsky and E. Pasternak. Discussions about the modern children's book, its merits, its educational potential.

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- I don't want you to know what I'm reading...

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Both guys break off on this day, important, as it seems to them, dates. The reason for this is an unprecedented snowfall that paralyzed life big city. Cars get stuck in endless traffic jams, they are immediately covered with snow. Volunteers who responded to the call "VKontakte" come to the rescue. Armed with shovels, they help the townspeople trapped in the snow... The element raged despite the spring date - March 25, which someone on the Internet has already wittily called February 52.

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