In 1906-1914 he was an assistant to the publisher of the Punch magazine.
During the First World War he served in the British Army.
In 1917, he published the fairy tale "Once upon a time ..." (Once on a Time), in 1921 - the comedy play "Mr. Pim Passed By" (Mr. Pim Passed By), which became one of the most popular of the dramatic works of the author. In the 1920s the play was staged in Manchester, London and New York.
In 1920, Alan Milne and his wife Dorothy had a son, Christopher Robin. From the stories and poems that Alan composed for his child, in 1924 a book of children's poems When We Were Very Young was born, which three years later had a sequel, Now We Are Six. Six). In the book "When We Were Little" a poem about a bear cub (Teddy Bear) appears for the first time. Both editions were illustrated by Ernest Howard Shepard, the artist who painted the famous image of Winnie the Pooh.
Some of the poems later.
In 1934, Milne, being a pacifist, published the book "Peace with Honor" (Peace With Honor), which called for peace and the rejection of war. The book has been the subject of considerable controversy.
In the 1930s, Milne wrote the novels "Two" (Two People, 1931), "Very short-lived sensation" (Four Days "Wonder, 1933). In 1939, he wrote his autobiography entitled "It's too late" (It "s Too Late Now). Milne's last novel, Chloe Marr, was published in 1946.
In 1952, the writer suffered a stroke. On January 31, 1956, Alan Alexander Milne died at his home in Harfield, Sussex.
The copyright for the Winnie the Pooh books was owned by four beneficiaries - the Alan Milne family, the Royal Literary Foundation, Westminster School and the Garrick Club. After the writer's death, his widow sold her stake to the Walt Disney Company, which made the famous Winnie the Pooh cartoons. In 2001, the other beneficiaries sold their stake to Disney Corporation for $350 million.
The writer's son Christopher Robin Milne (1920-1996) became a writer, following in his father's footsteps, and wrote several memoirs: "Enchanted Places", "After Winnie the Pooh", "Pit on the Hill".
The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources
Alan Alexander Milne (1882-1956) - prose writer, poet and playwright, classic of literature of the twentieth century, author of the famous Winnie the Pooh.
The English writer, of Scots origin, Alan Alexander Milne spent his childhood in London. He studied at a small private school owned by his father, John Milne. One of his teachers in 1889-1890 was HG Wells. Then he entered the Westminster School, and then to Trinity College, Cambridge, where from 1900 to 1903 he studied mathematics. As a student, he wrote articles for the student newspaper Grant. He usually wrote with his brother Kenneth, and they signed notes with the name AKM. Milne's work was noticed, and the British humor magazine Punch began to collaborate with him, later Milne became an assistant editor there.
In 1913, Milne married Dorothy Daphne de Selincourt, goddaughter of magazine editor Owen Seaman (claimed to be the psychological prototype of Eeyore), from which they had one son, Christopher.
A born pacifist, Milne was drafted into the Royal Army and served in France. Later, he wrote the book "Peace with Honor", in which he condemned the war.
In 1926, the first version of Bear with sawdust in his head appeared (in English - Bear-with-very-small-brains) - "Winnie the Pooh". The second part of the stories, "Now there are six of us", appeared in 1927, and the final part of the book "The House at the Pooh Corner" - in 1928. Milne never read his own stories about Winnie the Pooh to his son, Christopher Robin, preferring to educate him on the works of the writer Wodehouse, beloved by Alan himself, and Christopher first read poems and stories about the Pooh bear only 60 years after their first appearance.
Before the publication of books about Winnie the Pooh, Milne was already a fairly well-known playwright, but the success of Winnie the Pooh acquired such proportions that Milne's other works are now practically unknown. Worldwide sales of Pooh Bear books translated into 25 languages from 1924 to 1956 exceeded 7 million, and by 1996 had sold about 20 million copies, and only by Muffin (this figure does not include publishers in the US, Canada and non-English-speaking countries). A survey conducted in 1996 by English radio showed that the book about Winnie the Pooh was ranked 17th in the list of the most striking and significant works published in the twentieth century. That same year, Milne's favorite teddy bear was sold in London at the Bonham House auction to an unknown buyer for £4,600.
In 1952, Milne underwent brain surgery, after which he spent four years, until his death, on his estate in Cotchford, Sussex.
Alan Alexander Milne was born in 1882 in London. His father was the head of a small private school, where HG Wells taught at one time. After graduating from the University of Cambridge, where (like Carroll) he studied mathematics, Milne began working as a journalist. At twenty-four, he became deputy editor of the well-known humor magazine Punch, and published his essays there weekly.
But the true world fame (unexpectedly for himself) brought Milne books for children.
Milne started with poetry, because according to Winnie the Pooh, you do not find poetry, but she finds you. Written as a joke and published at the urging of his wife, the children's poem soon became very popular. The first book of poems also had a great resonance. And the famous Winnie the Pooh saga made Milne a classic.
And for the first time, the famous poet and translator Boris Zakhoder introduced the Russian reader to the famous Milnov hero and his friends in 1960.
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Poetry
About son:
My Robin doesn't walk
Like people -
Top-top, -
And rushes skipping,
gallop -
Hop-hop!
A humorous poem Tails”- about the intention of a little boy to get a “great tail”:
I said to the lion, the cat, the camel:
- I won't envy you.
See, from today
I got a tail too.
swing song
Easy on the swing
I fly higher and higher
Far from me
Attic or roof!
I see the oak top
And the field away:
I probably became
Lord of the earth!
And the lord of heaven
I would, in fact,
If it were a little higher
The swings are up!
Oh, just one more minute
And soared to the sun!
But for some reason they
Going down...
fur bear
And if, like a bear,
I'm all overgrown with fur -
I wouldn't look
In the snow and in the cold!
Frosty or blizzard
Snowy or snowy -
No need to worry
When dressed like a bear!
I would walk in a big fur hood,
In fur mittens (on each hand),
And in a big fur jacket (on the sides),
And in big fur boots (on legs).
Covered with a fur blanket with his head,
All winter in bed I slept fur!
———————
"Tails".
The lion and the whale have a tail,
At a crocadile, and an elephant;
Fluffy, long, scaly,
And with a tassel at the end.
Birds, animals and fish have tails.
And how can I get it?
Give me the address of the super store,
Where all in the tails is a shop window.
I'll spend my last penny
I'll buy a tail to look like
On a crocodile and a whale,
On a lion, a huge elephant.
Look, animals, fish, birds!
With my tail, you can not compare!
(Many thanks for the great translation)
English playwright, poet, storyteller, author of classic books of English children's literature: "When We Were Little" (1924; collection of poems), "Now We're Six" (1927), "Winnie the Pooh" (1926) and "The House at Pooh Edge" "(1928; Russian retelling by B. Zakhoder called "Winnie the Pooh and everything, everything, everything", 1960).
Milne grew up in a family where children were encouraged to be creative, from a young age he composed funny poems, showed an aptitude for exact sciences and entered Trinity College, Cambridge in mathematics.
During his student years, he fulfilled his old dream by becoming the editor of the Granta magazine, for which he wrote poetry and short stories. As a result, Milne completely abandoned his studies and moved to London, where he began working in Punch magazine.
In 1913 he married Dorothy de Selincourt, goddaughter of magazine editor Owen Seaman (claimed to be Eeyore's psychological prototype), and in 1920 his only son, Christopher Robin, was born. By that time, Milne had managed to visit the war, write several funny plays, one of which - "Mr. Pym passed" (1920) was a success.
When his son was three years old, Milne began to write poems about him and for him, devoid of sentimentality and accurately reproducing children's egocentrism, fantasies and stubbornness. The enormous success of the book of poems illustrated by Ernest Shepard led Milne to write the fairy tales The Rabbit Prince (1924), The Princess Who Couldn't Laugh and The Green Door (both 1925), and in 1926 Winnie the Pooh was written. All the characters in the book (Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, Kang and Roo) except for Rabbit and Owl were found in the nursery (now the toys that served as prototypes are kept in the Museum of Toy Bears in the UK), and the topography of the Forest resembles the neighborhood of Cotchford, where the family Milna spent the weekend.
Each of the characters has a memorable character and charm, and the finale of the book "House on the Downy Edge" is poignantly lyrical. The wild success of the Winnie the Pooh books (they were translated into twelve languages and sold about fifteen million copies) overshadowed everything else written by Milne: the detective novel The Mystery of the Red House (1922), the novels The Two (1931) and Chloe Marr (1946), essays, plays and autobiographical book It's Too Late (1939).
In 1966, Walt Disney released the first animated film based on Milne's Winnie the Pooh. A little under half an hour long, the adventures of a boy named Christopher Robin and his favorite teddy bear, Winnie the Pooh, have been seen in movies and on television by millions of children. In bringing Milne's characters to life through animation, Disney and his team of artists sought to maintain the style of Ernst Shepard's original drawings, which were as beloved as the stories themselves. The film was directed by Wolfgang Reiterman, who also directed Disney's The Sword in the Stone, The Jungle Book, Robin Hood, and The Aristocratic Cats.
Famous Hollywood actor Sterling Holloway voiced the role of Winnie the Pooh, and Sebastian Cabot read the text behind the scenes. The ten-year-old son of director Bruce Reiterman spoke for Christopher Robin. Oscar-winning composers Richard and Robert Sherman for their scores for Mary Poppins wrote five songs for the Pooh film. All this was done for one animated film lasting 26 minutes. Without a doubt, "Winnie the Pooh and the Bee Tree" received wide recognition only because the treasure of the world's classics for children was carefully transferred to another form. In subsequent years, several animated sequels (including television ones) were released.
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Alan Alexander Milne (Alan Alexander Milne) - prose writer, poet, playwright, classic of English literature of the twentieth century, author of the famous Winnie the Pooh.
Milne was born in the London Borough of Kilburn on January 18, 1882. A Scot by birth, Alan Alexander Milne spent his childhood in London, where his father John Milne (John Vine Milne) owned a small private school. His early education was largely determined by the influence of youth teacher HG Wells - much later, Milne wrote of Wells as "a great writer and a great friend." He continued his education at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Subsequently, he donated the handwritten original of his book Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner to the College Library. As a student at Cambridge, where he studied mathematics from 1900 to 1903, he wrote notes for the student newspaper Grant, and his first literary experiments were published in the humorous magazine Punch. At the age of 24, Milne began working at Punch as an assistant editor until the outbreak of World War I, in which he took part.
In 1913, Alan Milne married Dorothy Daphne de Selincot, from this marriage one son, Christopher Robin Milne, was born. A born pacifist, Milne was drafted into the Royal Army and served in France. The war made a strong impression on the young writer. She was the reason why Milne, who was not particularly interested in politics, thought about what was happening in the world. His famous anti-war work The Honorable Peace was published in 1934. This book found a huge response in the interwar period, and in 1924 Muffin published Milne's famous stories "When We Were Very Young", some of which had previously been published in Punch and were well known to regular readers of the magazine.
In 1926, the first version of Bear with sawdust in his head (in English - "a bear with very small brains") "Winnie the Pooh" appeared. The idea for this book came to Milne from his wife and little Christopher. The history of the creation of the fairy tale is full of mysteries and contradictions, but the most important thing is that it has become one of the most popular children's books. The second part of the stories "Now there are six of us" appeared in 1927 and, finally, the final part of the book "The House on the Downy Edge" was published in 1928. It seemed to Milne that he had written something like a well-selling detective story, because his book immediately earned two and a half thousand pounds. Even after the dizzying success of Winnie the Pooh, Milne remained in doubt about his literary talent. He wrote: "All I wanted was to run away from this fame, like I used to want to run away from Punch, like I always wanted to run away... However..."
In 1922, he did write a detective novel, The Mystery of the Red House, which was not published until 1939, along with 25 other plays, short stories, and Milne's autobiography, Too Late. Milne has always acknowledged and repeatedly gratefully emphasized the defining role of his wife Dorothy and his son Christopher in the writing and the very fact of the appearance of Winnie the Pooh. Pooh Bear books have been translated into 25 languages and have taken their place in the hearts and on the shelves of millions of readers.
The first chapter of Pooh, "in which we first meet Winnie the Pooh and the bees," was first printed in the London Evening Paper on December 24, 1925, and broadcast on BBC Radio on Christmas Day by Donald Calfrop. The irony is that Milne was convinced that he did not write children's prose or children's poetry. He spoke to the child within each of us. He never read his Pooh stories to his son, preferring to raise Christopher on the works of his favorite writer, Wodehouse. Wodehouse subsequently returned this compliment to Milne, saying that "Milne is his favorite children's writer".
Wodehouse's books continued their life in Milne's house after his death. Christopher Robin read these books to his daughter Claire, whose bookshelves in her room were literally bursting with books by this writer. Christopher wrote to his friend Peter (actor): “My father knew nothing about the specifics of the book market, knew nothing about the specifics of sales, he never wrote books for children. He knew about me, he knew about himself and the Garrick Club - and he just ignored everything else ... Except, perhaps, life itself. Christopher Robin first read the poems and stories about Winnie the Pooh 60 years after they first appeared, when he heard Peter's recordings on a record.
The adventures of Winnie the Bear are loved by both adults and children. In 1996, a public opinion poll conducted by English radio showed that this book was ranked 17th in the list of the most striking and significant works published in the twentieth century. Worldwide sales of Winnie the Pooh from 1924 to 1956 exceeded 7 million. As you know, when the sale exceeds a million, publishers stop counting them.
In 1960, Winnie the Pooh was brilliantly translated into Russian by Boris Zakhoder. Anyone who speaks Russian and English can attest that the translation was made with exquisite precision and ingenious ingenuity. In general, Winnie has been translated into all European and almost all world languages.
In addition to the world-famous Winnie the Pooh, Alan Milne is known as a playwright and novelist. His plays were successfully staged on the professional stage in London, but now they are staged mainly in amateur theaters, although they still gather full houses and arouse the interest of the public and the press.
In 1952, Milne fell seriously ill. He had to undergo major brain surgery. The operation was successful, and after it Milne returned to his home in Sussex, where he spent the rest of his life reading. After a long illness, he died on January 31, 1956.
Shortly after the release of Winnie the Pooh, Milne wrote in The Nation: “I think that each of us secretly dreams of immortality .. In the sense that his name will survive the body and will live in this world, despite the fact that the person himself has passed into another world.” When Milne died, no one doubted that he had discovered the secret of immortality. And this is not 15 minutes of fame, this is real immortality, which, contrary to his own expectations, was brought to him not by plays and short stories, but by a little bear with sawdust in his head. In 1996, Milne's favorite teddy bear was sold in London at an auction organized by the House of Bonham to an unknown buyer for £4,600.