Elena Shvarts
Elena Shvarts in the late 1960s (photo by N. Koroleva)
Elena Andreyevna Shvarts (Russian: Елена Ðндреевна Шварц) (17 May 1948 – 11 March 2010) was a Russian poet.[1]
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."[2] Birdsong escaping from a cage is a metaphor running though her work.
Bibliography
Russian
Poems
- «Танцующий Давид» (Dancing David) (New York: Russica Publishers, 1985)
- «Стихи» (Verses) (Paris: БеÑеда, 1987)
- «Труды и дни Лавинии, монахини из ордена ÐžÐ±Ñ€ÐµÐ·Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ Ð¡ÐµÑ€Ð´Ñ†Ð°Â» (Labours and days of Lavinia) (Ann Arbor: Ardis Publishers, 1987)
- «Стороны Ñвета» (Cardinal direction) (Leningrad: Sovetsky Pisatel, the Leningrad Department, 1989)
- «Стихи» (Verses) (Л.: ÐÑÑÐ¾Ñ†Ð¸Ð°Ñ†Ð¸Ñ Â«ÐÐ¾Ð²Ð°Ñ Ð»Ð¸Ñ‚ÐµÑ€Ð°Ñ‚ÑƒÑ€Ð°Â», 1990)
- Â«Ð›Ð¾Ñ†Ð¸Ñ Ð½Ð¾Ñ‡Ð¸. Книга поÑм» (Rutter of the Night, a book of long poems) (СПб.: СоветÑкий пиÑатель, Санкт-ПетербургÑкое отделение, 1993)
- «ПеÑÐ½Ñ Ð¿Ñ‚Ð¸Ñ†Ñ‹ на дне морÑком» (A Song of the Bird at the Sea-Bottom) (СПб.: ПушкинÑкий фонд, 1995)
- «Mundus Imaginalis» (СПб.: Ðзро, 1996)
- «Западно-воÑточный ветер» (The West-Ost Wind) (СПб.: ПушкинÑкий фонд, 1997)
- «Соло на раÑкалённой трубе» (The Solo on the fiery Trumpet) (СПб.: ПушкинÑкий фонд, 1998)
- Â«Ð¡Ñ‚Ð¸Ñ…Ð¾Ñ‚Ð²Ð¾Ñ€ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¸ поÑмы» (Verses and Long Poems) (СПб.: ИнапреÑÑ, 1999)
- «ДикопиÑÑŒ поÑледнего времени» (The wild Script of the last Time) (СПб.: ПушкинÑкий фонд, 2001)
- «ТроÑÑ‚ÑŒ ÑкоропиÑца» (The Walking-Stick of the Tachygraph) (СПб.: ПушкинÑкий фонд, 2004)
- «Вино Ñедьмого года» (The Wine of the seventh Year) (СПб.: ПушкинÑкий фонд, 2007)
Prose and essay
- Определение в дурную погоду (Definition while the Weather is Bad) (СПб.: ПушкинÑкий фонд, 1997)
- Ð’Ð¸Ð´Ð¸Ð¼Ð°Ñ Ñторона жизни (The visible Side of the Life) (СПб.: ЛимбуÑ, 2003)
Collected Works
- Â«Ð¡Ð¾Ñ‡Ð¸Ð½ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð•Ð»ÐµÐ½Ñ‹ Шварц» (Collected Works by Elena Shvarts, Volumes I-II), Ñ‚Ñ‚. I-II (СПб.: ПушкинÑкий фонд, 2002, verses and long poems)
- Â«Ð¡Ð¾Ñ‡Ð¸Ð½ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð•Ð»ÐµÐ½Ñ‹ Шварц» (Collected Works by Elena Shvarts, Volumes III-IV), Ñ‚Ñ‚. III-IV (СПб.: ПушкинÑкий 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 Martynova, Jelena Schwarz. Rom liegt irgendwo in Russland. Zwei russische Dichterinnen im lyrischen Dialog über Rom. Russisch / Deutsch. 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)
References
- ↑ Russian Poets at Princeton: Elena Shvarts
- ↑ J. Kates (ed.), In the Grip of Strange Thoughts: Russian Poetry in a New Era (Zephyr Press, 1999), p. 227.
External links
- Obituary in The Independent by Valentina Polukhina
- Obituary in The Guardian by Sasha Dugdale
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