Biography of Kozlov William
Kozlov grew up in the family of a maternal grandfather - A. Abramov, who proudly considered himself the founder of a settlement at Kuzhenkino station. Kozlov’s father, I. Nadtocheev, was a border guard lieutenant, he insisted that the first-born was given a name in honor of V. Lenin-Vil Grandfather called his grandson Vasily. Father soon left his family, left for Leningrad, taking his son with him, but Kozlov returned to his mother.
Mother married again - for F. Kozlov, a traveling master who adopted adopted children; When Kozlov received a passport, he modified his name, and also took the surname and patronymic of his stepfather in gratitude for his truly paternal attitude towards him. Shortly before the war, the Kozlovs moved to the Great Lukes. This period was subsequently reflected in Kozlov’s books - “Vitka from Chapaevskaya Street” and “I hurry for happiness” during the war Kozlov lived in Kuzhenkino, worked in a carpentry workshop, in a collective farm, and then on a field airfield.
Some episodes from Kozlov’s military childhood entered the story “Yurka Goose” after the end of the war, the Kozlov family returned to Great Luke. Kozlov changed several professions: he was an installer in the Radio Masters, a drawing in the architectural department, a surveyor, a drama artist, and a photo correspondent of gas. He entered Kozlov at the Kharkov Military School, took the oath, was appointed assistant to the platoon commander, but was demobilized before the end of the school.
Returning to the Great Lukes, he continued journalistic work in the "Great Lucian Pravda", printing essays, sketches, feuilletons there; Here was published and Kozlov’s first story “Son” in Kozlov came to Leningrad to study. He graduated from the journalism department of the Leningrad Higher Party School. After that he remained to live in Leningrad. The first book of Kozlov was published-a collection of stories Valerka-Chairman.
In the same year, the children's story “The President of the Stone Island” was published about the boyish republic from the orphanages, which caused a stream of benevolent reader responses with requests to write a continuation of the story. Kozlov’s orphanages, their life on the island according to the laws of the romantic “presidential” hierarchy in many respects resembled the “Timurians” by A.
They fought with poachers on the lake and in the forest; Having honored the memory of those who died during the Great Patriotic War, they looked for the graves of soldiers who fell on the battlefield, guarded these graves. The writer released the continuation of “the president dedicated to the difficult fate of the protagonist - Timofei Sorokin, this book could well be called the“ Tale of a Real Man ”.
In the works for children, Kozlov introduced readers to his military childhood, novels and stories of these years carry many autobiographical features. From Kozlov begins to write books for adults-“The vivid events of the childhood have already formed the basis of written books, it seemed that the topic was exhausted, and interest for some time disappeared from the world of children's adventures, the heroes of Kozlov fall into adulthood with its inevitable problems:“ The theme of the relationship of a man and a woman has long excited me.
And in the novels “The Sun on the Wall”, and “Come on Sunday”, and “Little Shooter from the bow”, and “Wind over your house” I will explore these complex and sometimes incomprehensible relations in our age ”Autobiography. The character of Kozlov’s characters is revealed not only in direct actions and dialogs, but also in a kind of lyrical confession, where “self -deepening” is connected with a sober, slightly ironic look at itself.
Kozlov’s books are always exciting and dynamic, even if the action takes place within the same human life. Kozlov’s fiction, as a rule, sensitively reacts to the moral requests of the mass reader. Many Kozlov’s works often became real bestsellers in the book market “Little Shooter from Luke”, “Veronica Hair” and others. Holding to the outline of the heroes and events of an unpretentious measure of the romantic and intellectual, lyrical and dramatic, the writer seeks to deploy morally attractive everyday decisions in the work, which helps to form a wide reader's reader around his books Audience.
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