Being a writer means creating goals for the world for your readers, giving not only your energy and time, but also a part of yourself. It was with this attitude that the wonderful Guzel Shamilevna Yakhina took on her work.
A great event, an unusual phenomenon, an extraordinary author - such enthusiastic epithets accompany the name of the writer Guzeli Yakhina.
The future writer was born on June 1, 1977 in Kazan. From early childhood, the girl loved to write fairy tales, after school she entered the Kazan Pedagogical Institute, the Faculty of Foreign Languages. After receiving her education, she moved to Moscow.
In Moscow, she worked in an advertising agency, studied at the Moscow School of Cinema, where she received a specialty as a screenwriter.
Guzeli Yakhina's literary career began with the publication of short stories, her first novel "Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes", which took several years to create, was released in 2015 and instantly became a sensation.
The book that was awaited
The plot of the work is masterfully built on the dramatic history of the Guzel Shamilevna family, the prototype of Zuleikha is the writer's grandmother, whose family was exiled to Siberia. And there, on the banks of the Angara, a story of survival unfolds before the reader, full of tragic events, but leading Zuleikha to finding himself. One of the plot lines in the novel is love, seemingly completely impossible in the harsh taiga scenery, but suddenly arising between people of different religions and different nationalities.
The novel becomes the most discussed book of our time. Reviews of critics are ambiguous, not all reviews are positive, but everyone agrees on one thing, the book is extremely honest, without embellishment describing one of the most difficult periods in the history of Russia.
The novel was published in many languages of the world, a script was written based on it, since 2017, a multi-part film with the participation of popular actors has been shooting.
Guzel Yakhina is the owner of many literary awards and prizes that she received for her famous novel.
In 2018, the novel "My Children" is published about the life of the Volga Germans, a sad story of great love and great loss, but this sadness is wonderful, like fairy tales that the protagonist comes up with.
Guzel Yakhina is the author of the text for "Total Dictation", it includes some chapters from the novel "My Children".
In April 2018, the dictation was written in 80 countries of the world.
Personal life
The writer travels a lot, and always willingly communicates with her readers, who love her books and hope that new ones will be released soon. Guzel Shamilevna does not like to talk about her personal life. It is only known that she has a husband and a child. But in her speeches, Guzel Shamilevna constantly emphasizes that it was thanks to the support of her relatives that she managed to write books for which, in her own words, she is not ashamed.
