The famous poetess transferred into lyric works not only her rebellious character and seeking nature, but also the entire arsenal of literary talents. Millions of Soviet and Russian readers give the highest marks to her work.
The lyric works of Yunna Moritz are known to different generations of our compatriots. Her work touches on love and civic lyrics, as well as children's poetry. The popular poetess, publicist and translator today is the embodiment of not only a bygone era, but also, most importantly, incorruptible human values.
Brief biography and personal life of Junna Moritz
Yunna Moritz was born in Kiev on 02.06.1937 in an intelligent family. Father is an engineer, mother is a teacher and a medical worker. Also, the future poetess had a sister. Her father also fell into the millstones of the Stalinist repressions that raged during the period of the girl's birth. And, although he subsequently managed to free himself, his health deteriorated significantly.
The evacuation to the Urals during the war, and after the liberation of his hometown and the return there marked a period of childhood. Then there was a high school, which Yunna graduates in 1954 and a philological faculty at Kiev University by correspondence course. It is noteworthy that the young talent wrote his first lyrical work "About a donkey" at the age of four. During her studies at the University, Moritz was already regularly published in the publication "Soviet Ukraine". But a year after the start of higher education in Kiev, the girl decides to move to Moscow to enter the Literary Institute at the poetry department.
The first lyric collection in 1957 was "A Conversation about Happiness". With breaks for a trip to the Arctic, she graduated from the university in 1961 and published the next collection, "Stories of the Miraculous," introducing readers to the legendary life of pilots, sailors and polar explorers. Love for everything new and unknown is very clearly expressed here in all her poems.
The active life position of the poetess and her tireless character in creative search are eloquently expressed today. She regularly uses social networks, where she has a lot of subscribers and friends.
Moritz's marriages to Leon Toom (Estonian poet and translator) and Yuri Varshaver (Y. Shcheglov) and the birth of Dmitry Glinsky (Vasiliev) filled her personal life with family happiness. But this topic is not a favorite for the poetess.
Creativity of the poetess
Yunna Moritz's lyrical research cannot be called serene. The first book "Cape of Zhelaniya", written back in university years, was qualified by the Soviet authorities as anti-Soviet propaganda and has not been published in the USSR for a long time. But these prohibitions were able to have a positive role in the work of the lyricist. It was during this period that she revealed herself as a children's writer and poet.
Eight books contain magnificent children's poems that millions of Soviet kids fell in love with. In this genre, the country recognized a talented poetess, and her work began to be published in the well-known magazine "Youth".
In 1970 the second book "Vine" was published. Here the writer reveals her talent with the greatest sensuality, which was regarded by many as harshness and harshness in military and urban themes.
Eight lyric collections, written by Yunna during the heyday of creativity, exclude unnecessary pathos and contain precise metaphors and laconic rhymes. Their theme expresses the violent character and uncompromising character of the heroes of lyric works. In the "nineties" Moritz was not published, and a new impetus to her work was received at the time of the release of two new collections: "Face" and "Thus". In 2005, the book "By law - hello to the postman!" Was published.
In the process of all her creative activity, the poetess translates poems by famous foreign authors: F. García Lorca, K. Cavafy, O. Wilde, S. Velheo, R. Gamzatova.
Yunna Petrovna does not remain indifferent to the international military conflicts of our time. Thus, she expressed her position on the 1999 events in Serbia with her lyric work "The Star of Serbia". She classifies today's events in Ukraine as nothing more than “Russophobic poison”.
