Olga Martynova

Olga Martynova at the Erlangen Poetry Festival (2012)

Olga Martynova (born in 1962 in Dudinka, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia)[1][2] is a Russian-German writer. She writes poems in Russian, and prose and essays in German.

She grew up in Leningrad and currently lives with her husband, the Russian poet, novelist and playwright Oleg Yuriev, and their son Daniel in Frankfurt where she works as a poet and literary critic. Martynova was awarded the Hubert Burda Preis für junge Lyrik for poets from Eastern, Southern and Central Europe in 2000.[3]

The book Rom liegt irgendwo in Russland (Rome lies somewhere in Russia) was written in collaboration with her friend, the Russian poet Elena Schwarz. In 2012 Martynova won the prestigious Ingeborg-Bachmann-Prize.[4]

Bibliography

In Russian:[5]

In German:

In German and Russian (bilingual; in collaboration with Jelena Schwarz):

Poems by Olga Martynova were translated to German, English, French, Italian.

Awards and grants

References

  1. "Olga Martynova" (in German). Herrmann-Lenz-Preis. 2000. Retrieved 2008-07-08.
  2. Daniel Weissbort (ed.) (2004). "Biographies - Poets". poetrymagazines.org.uk. Retrieved 2008-07-08.
  3. "Hermann-Lenz-Preis 2000" (in German). Hermann-Lenz-Preis. Retrieved 2008-07-08.
  4. "Bachmann-Preis geht an Olga Martynova" (in German). Die Zeit. Retrieved 2015-09-12.
  5. "An Anthology of Contemporary Russian Women Poets" p232 Valentina Polukhina, Daniel Weissbort 2005 University of Iowa Press ISBN 0-87745-947-9
  6. ""Бабочку Аронзона" за 2010 год получило стихотворение Ольги Мартыновой "Смерть поэта"" (in Russian). Новой Камеры хранения. 2010. Retrieved 2015-09-12.
  7. Gregor Dotzauer (2015-02-20). "Berliner Literaturpreis an Olga Martynova. Papagei und Lorelei" (in German). Der Tagesspiegel. Retrieved 2015-09-12.

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