Renata Mucha is a Russian children's poetess, whose work intertwined the best traditions of children's and adult poems. Renata Grigoryevna herself called a translator from the language of animals, vegetables, rains and galoshes.
Biography
The future poet was born in Odessa, January 31, 1933. Her father Grigory Gerasimovich Mukha was a Ukrainian military, participated in the civil war in partisan detachments. Mother Alexander Solomonovna Shekhtman from the age of seventeen worked as a teacher. After World War II, she told students about German philology at the Kharkov Institute of Foreign Languages.
In early childhood, Renata constantly heard around her speech in different languages. The family was surrounded by Jews, Greeks, Russians, Germans. It is likely that this circumstance contributed to the development of linguistic instinct in the girl and aroused interest in foreign languages.
Renata's parents decided on a divorce when the girl was five years old. After the outbreak of World War II, his father went to the front, and Renata and her mother were evacuated to Tashkent.
G. M. Mucha, Renata's father.
In 1944, they returned to Kharkov. Renata graduates from a female gymnasium, where she began her studies before the war. At this time, she is already fluent in German, in Yiddish, knows a little French. Therefore, for higher education, she chooses the Kharkov Institute, the English department.
Those who knew Renata personally noted her extraordinary artistry. Many even advised entering the Kharkov Theater Institute, but her mother was against it.
After graduating from the institute, he remains working at the Department of English Philology as an assistant professor. Later, Renata Grigoryevna defended her doctorate and wrote about forty scientific papers.
In her youth, Renata starred in local television, where she conducted a training program in English.
Methods of learning English from Renata Mukha
Renata Mucha after graduation.
Renata Mucha has developed a unique methodology for learning English, which allows you to interest the child and make him enjoy the lessons. This method is called "Fairy-Tale English" and, as the name implies, it is based on fairy tales and entertaining stories.
Since 1990, Renata Mucha traveled several times to England, the USA and Germany, where she talked about her methodology. Citing examples, as a "fabulous" she used already the Russian language.
Renata Mucha wrote the course "Mother Goose visiting Kurochka Ryaba". This is a work on the influence of English children's literature on Russian.
Poetry of Renata Flies
In childhood and adolescence, Renata did not write or feel such a need. Her first poem, which became known only in the 60s, is "Stung Already." This work was heard by the then-famous children's poet Vadim Levin. It was with him in the future that Renata Mucha will release many collections.
Renata bore her every creation for a long time, like a child. All of her lines and formulations are amazing, with the best examples of sound extraction and onomatopoeia.
In 1968, the first book of poems was published, co-written with N. Voronel. It was a collection of "Trouble", consisting of eight poems. Then, for almost a quarter of a century, Renata’s works will be published only in periodicals or magazines. The next collection will be released only in 1998 - it will be the "Hippopopoea" co-authored with V. Levin.
Recognition of the poet's creativity will be the inclusion of her poems in the anthology "In the beginning was the word: 10 centuries of Russian poetry." An essay about the author for this publication was written by E. Yevtushenko, who called his article "Without biting a Fly."
Poems by Renata Grigoryevna turned out to be very melodic. A lot of her works live in the form of songs. The music was composed by M. Melamed, L. Budko, Tatyana and Sergey Nikitin, and others.
Some of the books of Renata Mucha that were released during his lifetime:
- 1968 - "The Trouble" (co-authored with N. Voronel);
- 1998 - "Hippopoea";
- 2001 - "Discrepancies";
- 2002 - "Miracles Happen in Life";
- 2004 - "A little about the octopus";
- 2006 - "I'm Not Sleeping Here!";
- 2009 - "Between Us. Poems, Tales, and Amusements for Communicating with Children" (co-authored with V. Levin).
Renata Mukha always took part in various literary events in Russia, Israel, and the USA with pleasure. There were meetings with readers, performances in literary clubs, at festivals and fairs, interviews on radio and television.
