Shtern Boris Gedalevich: a short biography and interesting facts from life

Stern Boris Gedalievich (the books of this author were reprinted in English, Spanish, Swedish and other languages of the world) is known in the territory of the post-Soviet space as a Russian-speaking author who wrote in the style of "literary fiction".

The author of "Psychosis" (the first published story of Stern) was born in 1947. He celebrated his birthday on February 14.

Stern Boris: Biography

A native of Kiev, he was born at the very beginning of Valentine's Day - at 00:30 hours, during the Stalinist reform. This historic event, in his opinion, affected his future destiny - there was always not enough money.

About seventeen years of his life, Stern Boris Gedalevich spent in Odessa, where he lived, studied and worked.

Stern's professional career began after his graduation from the Odessa University (Faculty of Philology). One of the first professions, mastered by Boris Gedalevich, is an artist in the cinema.

Awards

After visiting the festival of fans of fiction EUROCON (held in the Romanian city of Timisoara) in 1994, Stern Boris Gedalievich was awarded the title of the best science fiction writer in Europe (previously only Strugatsky brothers and Stanislav Lem).

In different years Boris Gedalevich Stern was awarded with domestic literary awards: "Start", "Wanderer", "Bronze Snail", "Chumatsky Shliakh", "The Great Ring".

Stern Boris: books

In 1971, Boris Stern ventured to show his works to Boris Strugatsky and received from him an encouraging response and advice to publish his works. It was not easy: Stern belonged to the category of people who believe that it is better to do a smaller amount of work, focusing as much as possible on the quality of work.

The author's first book is called "Whose Planet?", It was published in 1987: Stern Boris Gedalevich at the time of its publication reached the age of forty. "Whose planet?" Is a collection of original fantastic stories, praising the best human qualities and ridiculing vices.

The second book of the writer - "Fish of Love" - was published in 1991. This included several new stories and a fantastic novel "Notes of the Dinosaur" - a biography of the editor-in-chief of the popular science publication that made a deal with the devil ...

It is interesting that Stern himself did not consider fiction a literature, calling this genre a reflection of the author's worldview.

From the pen of Boris Stern not only fantastic stories came out - sometimes he published realistic works. Boris Shtern is also the author of fabulous and satirical stories, novels and poems.

In 2002, when Boris Stern was no longer alive, "AST" and "Stalker" publishers published his "Ethiopian" with the latest amendments of Stern himself and supplemented the edition with the memoirs of E. Lukin. In the same year, the book "Tales of the Snake of Gorynych" was published - a collection of works included in the eponymous cycle, supplemented by Stern's correspondence with B. Strugatsky and the last interview of Boris Stern.

"Adventures of Bel Amor" with a preface by Boris Strugatsky and Boris Stern's autobiography were reprinted in the same 2002. In this book also entered never published novel "Forward, stables!".

The book "Second of July of the fourth year. The newest materials for the biography of Anton P. Chekhov "was printed in the publishing house" Svinin and Sons "in 2005.

Interesting details

Stern Boris Gedalevich always with special cautious attitude to "writers-delovaram." So he dubbed the first Soviet "infobusinessmen," the cars that produce the fruits of their creative thought. Stern himself never tried to sell his own works and considered this lesson unworthy for the writer.

When the writer was still a youth, the Odessa gypsy woman, who "traded" in the Moldovan region, guessed him a short life - up to 63 years. Such a "forecast", from the words of Stern himself, completely satisfied him. Since then, the writer no longer turned to fortune-tellers, but he knew that in 2010 he would have to "collect things". However, death overtook him much earlier - in 1998.