Huberman Igor was born in the city of Kharkov on 07/07/1936. He lived there only eight days from birth. And, as the poet himself says, "he went to conquer Moscow." Igor’s mother graduated from the conservatory, his father is an economist. The school immediately accepted into the second grade, as I already read and wrote. In 1958, Igor graduated from MIIT, and was awarded a diploma of an electrical engineer.
Labor and literary activities
By profession, he worked for several years. He gained his first labor experience in Bashkiria, where he worked as an electric locomotive driver for a year. At the same time he worked on popular science books. It was somehow possible to combine work with literary activity at that time, recalls Igor Guberman. Books:
- "The Third Triumvirate" - on the methods and means of cybernetics in biology (1965).
- “Miracles and tragedies of the black box” - on the study and capabilities of the brain (1968).
- Liberated Time is about the leader of the Narodnaya Volya organization (1975).
- “Bekhterev. Pages of life ”- about the Russian psychologist and neurologist V. Bekhterev (1976).
Guberman Igor Mironovich wrote scripts for several documentaries, regularly published essays and articles in periodicals. In the fifties he met A. Ginzburg and other free-thinking people. He is very grateful to many of them, says Igor Guberman, the biography could be completely different. More and more manifests itself as a dissident poet, writes satirical poems about the problems of the country of councils.
Arrest and exile
He is actively involved in the publication of the underground journal “Jews in the USSR” and publishes his works there. The dramatic moment of his life was the arrest, on trumped-up charges. Huberman says that this was predetermined, because for a year he was relentlessly followed by a black car.
He refused to testify against the editor and was sentenced to 5 years. He served his term in full - from 1979 to 1984. This "kind of pastime" added to his life experience, recalls Igor Guberman. "Biography does not work out" and life can throw any surprise. The most important thing is to maintain good spirits and be honest with yourself. He always kept diaries in the camp, in 1980 he wrote “Walks around the hut”, the basis of the book was diary entries (published in 1988).
Emigration to Israel
Having returned from prison, for a long time he could not get a residence permit in the city and got a job. A year later, when Gorbachev came to power, there was some hope that changes had begun in the country. Unfortunately, the hopes did not materialize. The family emigrated to Israel. Actually, the decision to leave was made a long time ago, but Huberman’s arrest prevented him from leaving. Therefore, the process of moving was delayed for many years.
He moved to Israel in 1987 as an ordinary repatriate. I did not notice any “special” interest in myself as a well-known person. But it turned out that in Israel he has many readers. Therefore, creative meetings with readers and concerts began very quickly.
He always earned his living in various ways, Igor Guberman recalls, his biography of work is wide - he was an engineer, a foreman, and a locksmith. When he came to Israel, he was ready for everything and did not expect that he would be able to feed his family with literary work.
Huberman creativity
Guberman Igor Mironovich is actively engaged in literary activities. And also writes his famous quatrains. They are distinguished by humor and conciseness. Quatrains often use profanity. He considers it a natural part of a free and great language.
And this is normal, says Igor Huberman, the biography of many famous personalities and the best works of Russian literature have repeatedly confirmed that this is quite natural. Right now, free vocabulary is back in modern literary language.
Legendary "Garik"
He calls his quatrains "Garik". He used to call them "dazibao" (propaganda leaflets during the Chinese revolution). In the seventies, when two of his books were published, before the arrest of Huberman, they were all called "Jewish datsibao." But Huberman says this is stupid and wrong. I decided that it is best to call them “Gariks,” since his houses were not called Igor, but Garik.
He sees nothing strange or reprehensible in this. He believes that this is very organic, since now many call the quatrains by their name and a great many "teddy bears", "toffee", "mariks" have appeared. Huberman often pokes fun at Russian reality in his “little hands”. The quatrain is already more than four thousand, several editions survived the collection "Gariki for every day." Igor Guberman also published other collections of poems:
- “Gariki (Datsibao)” (1988).
- “Gariki for every day” (1992, in two volumes).
- "Calendar 2000" (1999).
- “Gariki from Atlantis” (2009).
- “Gariki for many years” (2010).
- “Gariki from Jerusalem” (2011).
Igor Huberman - author of the novel “Strokes to the portrait” (1994). She performs reading poetry, short stories and memoirs in the USA, Russia, and other countries. Leading a number of programs in Russian on Israeli television. Huberman's works are translated into English, Italian, German and other languages.
Huberman's wife Tatyana is a philologist by education. Everything that her husband writes is calm. She perfectly understands that the image of the hero in poetry and the author are two different things. In his family, even the most “prickly” verses are perceived normally. Igor Mironovich says that they tried to translate his poems into other languages, but nothing comes of it. “Apparently, the realities of our lives are rather difficult to express in another language,” Huberman jokes.