This audiobook includes the best works by the writer: well-known stories “The Mean Doglet,” “The Adventures of Vasya Kurolesov,” and cycles of stories “Crimson,” “Clean Door,” “Leaf-Cutter,” “About Them.”
About the author
Born in Moscow. Graduated from the Faculty of Philology at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute. As a student, he often performed together with Yuli Kim as both author and performer of his own songs. In addition, he painted pictures (official criticism referred to Koval as a “talentless epigone of Roerich”).
He worked as a teacher in the provinces. In 1966 he published his first children’s story, “The Tale of How a House Was Built.” After that came such well-known works as “The Adventures of Vasya Kurolesov” (1971), “The Cap with Carp” (1974), “Napoleon the Third the Mean Doglet” (1975), “The Lightest Boat in the World” (1984), and others.
During the perestroika years, Koval’s Christian works were published (the author himself called them “enamels”)—above all, “Entrance into Jerusalem” (1991).
In 1995 Koval’s last book was released—the novel “Suer-Whir,” for which a literary award “Wanderer” was granted to the writer a year later (posthumously).