Grigory Oster

Grigory Bentsionovich Oster (literary pseudonym “Ostyor”) is a Russian writer, screenwriter, playwright, and Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2007). He is ethnically Jewish. He is the creator of the “Bad Advice” genre and the author of the first Russian hypertext novel, A Tale with Details. He was born on November 27, 1947, in Odessa. He spent his childhood and youth in Yalta. In 1966, he completed service in the Northern Fleet. In 1970, he entered the drama department of the Maxim Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow, which he graduated from in 1982. He is now the author of many popular works for children, such as A Tale with Details, Papamamalogy, Raising Adults, Grandmother of the Boa Constrictor, Bad Advice, and Divination by the Hands, Legs, Ears, Back, and Neck. He is also the screenwriter of the animated films 38 Parrots, The One Who Was Bitten Got Caught, A Kitten Named Gav, Monkeys, etc., and of the feature film To the First Blood.