Evgeniy Permyak
- Writer
Evgeniy Andreyevich Permyak is Russian Soviet writer and playwright, journalist, director. He was born in the village Votkinsk plant of the Sarapul district of the Vyatka province, where most of his childhood and youth passed. He studied at the Votkinsk plant at a parish school and gymnasium, but did not graduate from the latter in connection with the Civil War. In 1920 he ended up in Siberia, where he served as a clerk at the Kupinsky meat processing center. In 1923 he was discharged and came to Perm. He worked as an assistant confectioner at a confectionery factory. At the same time he published correspondence and poems in the newspapers Zvezda (Perm), Krasnoe Prikamye (Sarapul). In 1924-1930 he studied at the socio-economic department of the pedagogical faculty. From 1926 to 1931 was the editor of the All-Union methodical publication (magazine) "Live Theatrical newspaper". In 1932 he moved to Moscow. In the mid-1930s, Permyak turned to drama and in 1935 the first play "The Green Vanguard" was published. In 1937, his most famous play, "The Forest Is Noisy", was written, which was staged in more than fifty Soviet theaters. In 1938 he was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR. In the 1940s, several plays by E. Permyak were banned and the author decides to leave the drama. In 1941 he moved with his family to Sverdlovsk (evacuation), where on the instructions of Aleksandr Fadeyev he became an org. Secretary of the Literary Center in the Urals until 1942, when he was appointed correspondent for the Sovinformburo. In 1944, Permyak returned to Moscow. In the postwar period, E. Permyak turns to prose. In 1946, he published his first popular science novel "Who to Be," which was a success and had several reprints. In the postwar years, he often turned to children's literature, published a lot as the author of fairy tales and miniatures of a popular educational and moral character.