Aleksandr Raskin

Alexander Borisovich Raskin was a Russian Soviet writer, satirist, and screenwriter. He was the husband of the writer Frida Vigdorova.

He graduated from the Institute of Literature in 1938. As a satirist and humorist, he was formed with the help of Yevgeny Petrov as an editor. He lived and worked in Moscow. In the 1940s, he was a contributor to the magazine Krokodil. Many of Raskin’s unpublished epigrams circulated orally. According to Wolfgang Kasack, “Raskin’s epigrams about contemporary writers demonstrate brilliant command of language and are distinguished by sharpness and aptness.” The famous film Spring was made on the basis of the musical Screen Star, written by Raskin in collaboration with Maurice Slobodsky. To this day, the collection of prose miniatures for children How Dad Was Little remains popular.