Name Vladimir Suteev Role Author | Died March 10, 1993 Parents Grigory Suteev | |
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Movies Petia and Little Red Riding Hood | ||
Vladimir Grigorevich Suteev (Russian: Влади́мир Григо́рьевич Суте́ев) (5 July 1903 — 10 March 1993) was a Russian author, artist and animator who primarily wrote stories for children. He was among the founders of the Soviet animation industry.
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Suteev's books have been translated into 36 languages and published in countries such as Norway, France, Mexico, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Japan.
The three little kittens by Suteev (Russian writer)
Life
Vladimir Suteev was born in Moscow into a family of a prominent Russian physician Grigory Osipovich Suteev and his wife, Zinaida Vasilievna Suteeva. Suteev took after his father, who was also fond of art, but it was Stepan Erzia, a close friend of his family who made a great impact on the young Vladimir. Even as a young man, Suteev's works were periodically published in the magazines Pioner, Murzilka, Druzhnye Rebyata, and Iskorka and in the newspaper Pionerskaya Pravda.
Suteev came to children's literature from the cinema. He graduated from the Institute of Cinematography (1928), and while he was still a student, he made the drawings for the animated film China on Fire (Kitai v Ogne, 1924); shot the first talking animated cartoon Athwart Street (Ulitsa Poperyok, 1931); and worked at the Soyuzmultfilm film studio, where more than 30 films were shot. Some of them (Petya and Little Red Riding Hood, The Magic Store, etc.) were rewarded with international prizes. In 1941, before leaving for the frontline, Suteev completed his work on the cartoon Clatterfly (Mukha-tsokotukha), based on Korney Chukovsky's fairy tale.
Suteev took part in the Great Patriotic War from the first days till the very end. From 1947 he worked at the Detgiz Publishing House. In 1952 his first book was published by Detgiz, Two Tales about the Pencil and the Paints. The book was welcomed by Chukovsky in a review in Literaturnaya Gazeta. After that, Suteev published quite a number of books: What Kind of a Bird is This?, Under the Mushroom, The Bag of Apples, The Chicken and the Duckling, Who said "Meow"?, The Helpful Stick, and many others. A lot of them were adapted by various animators.
Vladimir Suteev had been illustrating the books of Russian literary classics: Korney Chukovsky's tales, Samuil Marshak's "Whiskers and stripes", "Uncle Stjopa" by Sergey Mikhalkov, "The merry summer" by Valentin Berestov. Illustrated with Suteev's drawings, the below-mentioned books were published in Russia for the first time: Gianni Rodari's "Cippolino's adventures" (Suteev's heroes of the fairy-tale have become specimens for toys), the Norwegian writer Alf Prøysen's "Happy New Year", the English writer Lilian Moore "Little raccoon and the Thing in the pool". Suteev's Pif-puppy has become a favorite of children throughout the world ("The adventures of Pif", retold from French).