Elena Shvarts
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Elena Andreyevna Shvarts (17 May 1948 – 11 March 2010) was a Russia
n poet
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Born in Leningrad
, where she lived her entire life, Shvarts attended the University of Tartu
, where her first poems were published in the university newspaper in 1973. After that, however, she did not publish for another decade in her own country; her work began to appear in émigré journals in 1978, and she published two collections of poetry (Tantsuyushchii David and Stikhi) and a novel in verse (Trudy i dni Lavinii) abroad before a collection (Storony sveta) was allowed to be published in the Soviet Union, "bringing her immediate recognition both at home and abroad."
Birdsong escaping from a cage is a metaphor running though her work.
Prose and essay
Collected Works
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
.
Born in Leningrad
Leningrad
Leningrad is the former name of Saint Petersburg, Russia.Leningrad may also refer to:- Places :* Leningrad Oblast, a federal subject of Russia, around Saint Petersburg* Leningrad, Tajikistan, capital of Muminobod district in Khatlon Province...
, where she lived her entire life, Shvarts attended the University of Tartu
University of Tartu
The University of Tartu is a classical university in the city of Tartu, Estonia. University of Tartu is the national university of Estonia; it is the biggest and highest-ranked university in Estonia...
, where her first poems were published in the university newspaper in 1973. After that, however, she did not publish for another decade in her own country; her work began to appear in émigré journals in 1978, and she published two collections of poetry (Tantsuyushchii David and Stikhi) and a novel in verse (Trudy i dni Lavinii) abroad before a collection (Storony sveta) was allowed to be published in the Soviet Union, "bringing her immediate recognition both at home and abroad."
Birdsong escaping from a cage is a metaphor running though her work.
Russian
Poems- «Танцующий Давид» (Dancing David) (New YorkNew YorkNew York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
: Russica Publishers, 1985) - «Стихи» (Verses) (ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
: Беседа, 1987) - «Труды и дни Лавинии, монахини из ордена Обрезания Сердца» (Labours and days of LaviniaLaviniaIn Roman mythology, Lavinia is the daughter of Latinus and Amata and the last wife of Aeneas.Lavinia, the only child of the king and "ripe for marriage", had been courted by many men in Ausonia who hoped to become the king of Latium. Turnus, ruler of the Rutuli, was the most likely of the suitors,...
) (Ann Arbor: Ardis Publishers, 1987) - «Стороны света» (Cardinal direction) (Л.: Советский писатель, Ленинградское отделение, 1989)
- «Стихи» (Verses) (Л.: Ассоциация «Новая литература», 1990)
- «Лоция ночи. Книга поэм» (Rutter of the Night, a book of long poems) (СПб.: Советский писатель, Санкт-Петербургское отделение, 1993)
- «Песня птицы на дне морском» (A Song of the Bird at the Sea-Bottom) (СПб.: Пушкинский фонд, 1995)
- «Mundus Imaginalis» (СПб.: Эзро, 1996)
- «Западно-восточный ветер» (The West-Ost Wind) (СПб.: Пушкинский фонд, 1997)
- «Соло на раскалённой трубе» (The Solo on the fiery Trumpet) (СПб.: Пушкинский фонд, 1998)
- «Стихотворения и поэмы» (Verses and Long Poems) (СПб.: Инапресс, 1999)
- «Дикопись последнего времени» (The wild Script of the last Time) (СПб.: Пушкинский фонд, 2001)
- «Трость скорописца» (The Walking-Stick of the Tachygraph) (СПб.: Пушкинский фонд, 2004)
- «Вино седьмого года» (The Wine of the seventh Year) (СПб.: Пушкинский фонд, 2007)
Prose and essay
- Определение в дурную погоду (Definition while the Weather is Bad) (СПб.: Пушкинский фонд, 1997)
- Видимая сторона жизни (The visible Side of the Life) (СПб.: Лимбус, 2003)
Collected Works
- «Сочинения Елены Шварц» (Collected Works by Elena Shvarts, Volumes I-II), тт. I-II (СПб.: Пушкинский фонд, 2002, verses and long poems)
- «Сочинения Елены Шварц» (Collected Works by Elena Shvarts, Volumes III-IV), тт. III-IV (СПб.: Пушкинский фонд, 2008, verses, prose and a theatrical play)
Translations
- Paradise: selected poems. Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe, 1993
- Ein kaltes Feuer brennt an den Knochen entlang … : Gedichte. Chemnitz; Berlin; St. Petersburg: Oberbaum, 1997
- Das Blumentier: Gedichte. Düsseldorf: Grupello-Verl., 1999
- La vierge chevauchant Venise et moi sur son épaule: poèmes. Évian: Alidades, 2003
- Olga MartynovaOlga MartynovaOlga Martynova is a Russian-German writer. She writes poems in Russian, prose and essays in German....
, Jelena Schwarz. Rom liegt irgendwo in Russland. Zwei russische Dichterinnen im lyrischen Dialog uber Rom. Russisch / Deutch. Aus dem Russischen von Elke Erb und Olga Martynova. Wien: Edition per procura, 2006 - Birdsong on the seabed. Tarset: Bloodaxe Books, 2008
- Werken en dagen van de non Lavinia. Amsterdam, 2009
Anthologies
- Child of Europe: A New Anthology of East European Poetry, edited by Michael March (London: Penguin, 1990)
- Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry, edited by John Glad and Daniel Weissbort (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992)
- Contemporary Russian Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology, ed. Gerald Smith (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993)
- Third Wave: The New Russian Poetry, eds. Kent Johnson and Stephen M. Ashby (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992)
- In the Grip of Strange Thoughts: Russian Poetry in the New Era, ed. J. Kates (Zephyr Press, 1999)
External links
- Obituary in The IndependentThe IndependentThe Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...
by Valentina Polukhina - Obituary in The GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
by Sasha Dugdale