Renata Mukha is a Russian children's poetess, in whose work the best traditions of children's and adult poems are intertwined. Renata Grigorievna called herself a translator from the language of animals, vegetables, rains and galoshes.
Biography
The future poet was born in Odessa on January 31, 1933. Her father, Grigory Gerasimovich Mukha, was a Ukrainian military man who participated in the civil war in partisan detachments. Mother Alexandra Solomonovna Shekhtman from the age of seventeen worked as a teacher. After the Great Patriotic War, 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 it was this circumstance that contributed to the development of the girl's linguistic instinct and aroused interest in foreign languages.
Renata's parents decided to 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.
In 1944, they returned to Kharkov. Renata graduates from a female gymnasium, where she began her studies before the war. At this time, she already speaks fluent German, 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 to enter the Kharkov Theater Institute, but her mother was against it.
After graduation from the institute, he remains to work at the Department of English Philology in the status of an associate professor. Later Renata Grigorievna will defend her doctoral dissertation and write about forty scientific papers.
In her youth, Renata starred on local television, where she led an English language training program.
Methodology for learning English from Renata Mucha
Renata Mucha has developed a unique method of learning English, which allows the child to be interested and make him enjoy the lessons. This method is called "Fabulous English" and, as the name implies, it is based on fairy tales and entertaining stories.
Since 1990, Renata Mucha has traveled several times to England, the USA and Germany, where she talked about her technique. Citing examples, she used Russian as a “fairy tale”.
Renata Mukha wrote the course "Mother Goose Visiting Hen Ryaba". This is a work about the influence of English children's literature on Russian.
Poetry by Renata Mucha
In childhood and adolescence, Renata did not write poetry and did not feel such a need. Her first poem, which became known only in the 60s, is "The Stung Already". This work was heard by the then well-known children's poet Vadim Levin. It was with him in the future that Renata Mucha will release many collections.
Renata carried each of her creations for a long time, like a child. All her lines and phrases are amazing, with the best examples of sound production and onomatopoeia.
In 1968 the first book of poetry was published, co-authored 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 published only in 1998 - it will be "Hippopopoem" in collaboration with V. Levin.
The recognition of the poet's creativity will be the inclusion of her poems in the anthology "In the beginning there was a word: 10 centuries of Russian poetry." An essay about the author for this publication was written by E. Yevtushenko, who titled his article "Not Biting Fly at All".
Renata Grigorievna's poems turned out to be very melodic. Many of her works live in the form of songs. Music for them was composed by M. Melamed, L. Budko, Tatiana and Sergey Nikitin and others.
- 1968 - "Trouble" (co-authored with N. Voronel);
- 1998 - "Hippopopoem";
- 2001 - "Reservations";
- 2002 - "There are miracles in life";
- 2004 - "A little bit about the octopus";
- 2006 - “I don’t sleep here!”;
- 2009 - “Between us. Poems, fairy tales and entertainment for communication with children”(co-authored with V. Levin).
Renata Mucha always gladly took part in all kinds of literary events in Russia, Israel, and the USA. There were meetings with readers, performances in literary clubs, at festivals and fairs, interviews on radio and television.
A family
During her life, the poetess often had to answer the question of why she chose such a strange pseudonym - Fly. However, this is Renata's real surname. For creativity, she left herself the name of her father, who was a Ukrainian. According to the passport, Renata Grigorievna is Tkachenko, this is the name of her husband Vadim Alexandrovich.
Renata Grigorievna's husband was a mathematician and professor. The couple have two sons: Dmitry and Alexey. The younger Alexei lives with his wife and daughter in the United States.
In the nineties of the last century, Renata Grigorievna moved to Israel. There she continues her teaching career - she teaches English to local students. It is a member of the Union of Russian-speaking Authors of Israel.
For the last 25 years of her life, Renata Mukha was seriously ill, but she carefully hid it from everyone. The poet died in 2009.
