Russian: Юрий Дружков

Yuri Mikhailovich Postnikov - Russian Soviet children's writer. The author of well-known children's books about the adventures of Karandash and Samodelkin, published in millions of copies in 28 languages ​​of the world.

Yuri Druzhkov (Postnikov) - was born in Moscow, on Taganka. At the age of three he fell ill, could not walk, and his mother sent him for treatment to Yalta, where he spent 14 years lying down. The child could not walk like his peers and therefore began to compose fairy tales about how he swims in the seas and oceans, travels to distant countries. Only at the age of 14 he was able to stand on crutches - he learned to walk again.

In 1956, a new children's magazine "Vesyolye Kartinki" appeared, on the pages of which he invented two now famous all over the world little men - Karandash and Samodelkin.
And in 1964, Yuri Druzhkov wrote the book "The Adventures of Pencil and Samodelkin", which was published in a circulation of 250,000 copies and immediately became a children's bestseller and was sold in a week. The book began to be published all over the world, and in 1969 it received the "Gold Medal" in Prague as the best book of the century for children.

All his life Yuri Druzhkov worked for children: he wrote fairy tales, stories and puppet plays. In 1983, a radio play based on his book "The Adventures of Karandash and Samodelkin" was released, in which, as in cartoons, Karandash was voiced by G. Vitsin.
The last ten years of his life, the author worked on the adult book "Who is crying for you", which was published only 20 years after his death. The author considered this book to be the main one in his work. A book about love, about children with an incredibly twisted, fascinating plot.