Biography of Anna Ignatova

Biography of Anna Ignatov Funny verses and fairy tales from Anna Ignatova Petersburzhenka Anna Ignatov, this pseudonym Anna Sidorova belongs to the new generation of writers who are fascinating for children who have received recognition from young readers and their parents. She composes not only poems, witty and kind, but also funny stories, and entertaining fairy tales with modern heroes.

He says that you need to write for children so that the child holds a book under the pillow, not wanting to part with it. Anna was born in Leningrad in the year and did not dream of a writer's career in childhood. Although he recalls that the first two -part in life, about the cat, came up with at the age of six. She loved books and generally reached for culture, often visited theaters, museums.

After school, she entered the Pedagogical Institute named after Herzen now to the RSPU, graduated from the university in the year with a red diploma. And for more than one year she worked as a teacher of the Russian language and literature, before she decided to try her forces in writing. According to Anna Sergeevna, she took up compulsion in forced circumstances. She lay in the hospital with a concussion, when it was impossible to read or use the phone - only fantasize.

So a whole series of stories was born - parodies on folk plots, which she later called "slipping fairy tales." At first, the Internet helped: Anna posted the fruits of creativity on the website of poems. It was she who introduced Ignatov to the famous St. Petersburg writer Mikhail Yasyv passed away in the year. According to his recommendation, the Odessa humorous magazine "Fontan" printed "slipping fairy tales." Then the publications followed in the magazines “Bonfire”, “Murzilka”, “Ural”, in the collections of young authors.

Her first book “On Elephants, Trolleybuses and Princes” was published in the Onyx publishing house in the year, and in December another important event took place - Anna Ignatov was admitted to the Union of Writers of St. Petersburg. Now her literary baggage has dozens of works printed in individual publications or included in collections. Her books “Believe - I do not believe”, “The Kingdom of M”, “Hurricane as a gift”, “To the forest for rhymes”, “The old woman’s house”, “Jin Seva”, “Cherry Pie” and many others are enjoying success.

The great success was the book-tale book “Princess Tornada” last year, for which Ignatova was awarded the prestigious prize of the Moscow Government named after Korney Chukovsky. It is interesting that her talent was brightly revealed in another direction: from childhood, Anna loved to sculpt from Plastelin, and becoming a writer, continued this occupation, creating a plastic world of her heroes.

One of the books is called the “plasticine vector”, the author illustrated her with photographs of plasticine characters. She teaches little readers to sculpt the art of sculpting, recording videos and publishing on YouTube. Anna Sergeyevna will present all her new works in the family circle. The only son Konstantin Sidorov, who recently turned 25 years old, is also a creative person.

He is a certified sound engineer, the leader of the St. Petersburg rock band “Sleaches of the People”, writes songs and, happens, on the texts of his mother. They prefer to rest in joint travels - on kayaks, bicycles, they like to discover unknown places.