Novella Matveyeva

Novella Matveyeva

Novella Nikolayevna Matveyeva (Russian: Новелла Николаевна Матвеева) (born October 7, 1934, Detskoye Selo, Russia[1]) is a Russian bard (singer-songwriter), poet, writer, screenwriter, dramatist, and literary scientist.[2][3]

Her first collection of poetry was publishhed in 1961, the same year she was admitted to the Union of Soviet Writers.[1]

Since the end of the 1950s, Novella Matveyeva has been composing songs to her poetry and performing them, accompanying herself on a seven-string guitar.

In 1998, Novella Matveyeva received the Russian State Pushkin Prize in poetry,[4] and in 2002, she also received the Russian Federation State Prize in Literature and Arts for her poetry collection Jasmine.[5]

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