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]

• Postup´yanvarskikh sadov (poems), Moscow 1989 (in the convolute Kamera khraneniya)
• Sumas`shedshiy kuznechik (poems), St Petersburg 1994
• Chetyre vremeni nochi (poems), St Petersburg 1998
• Frantsuzskaia biblioteka (poems), Moscow 2007
• O Vvedenskom. O Chvirike i Chvirke / Issledovaniya v stikhakh (poems), Moscow 2010 (Russian Prize 2009, the long list).

In German:

• Brief an die Zypressen (poems), Rimbaud, Aachen 2001, ISBN 978-3-89086-736-6.
• Wer schenkt was wem (essays and book reviews), Rimbaud, Aachen 2003, ISBN 978-3-89086-686-4.
• In der Zugluft Europas (poems), Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-88423-327-6.
• Sogar Papageien überleben uns (a novel), Droschl, Graz 2009, ISBN 978-3-85420-765-8 - the long list of the German Bookprize 2010, the short list of the Aspekte-Prize of the ZDF (2010), Adalbert-von-Chamisso-Prize 2011, Roswitha-Prize 2011.
• Zwischen den Tischen. Olga Martynova und Oleg Jurjew im essayistischen Dialog. Bernstein, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-939431-73-2 (essays by Olga Martynova and Oleg Yuriev).
• Von Tschwirik und Tschwirka (poems). Droschl, Graz 2012, ISBN 978-3-85420-831-0.
• Mörikes Schlüsselbein (a novel), Droschl, Graz 2013, ISBN 978-3-85420-841-9

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

• Rom liegt irgendwo in Russland: Zwei russische Dichterinnen im lyrischen Dialog über Rom, Edition per Procura, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-901118-57-9.

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

Awards and grants

• 2000 Hubert-Burda-Preis für junge Lyrik (Germany)
• 2005 Grant of the Baltic Center for Translators and Authors in Visby (Sweden)
• 2007 Grant of the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben, Edenkoben, (Germany)
• 2009 Long list of the "Russian Prize" (Russia), for O Vvedenskom. O Chvirike i Chvirke / Issledovaniya v stikhakh
• 2010 Long list of the German Book Prize (Germany), for Sogar Papageien überleben uns
• 2010 Short list of the aspekte-Literaturpreis (for Sogar Papageien überleben uns) (Germany)
• 2010 Babochka Aronzona (Aronzon's Butterfly), the annual prize of the literary site "Novaya kamera khranenia" for the poem of the year (Russia)^[6]
• 2011 Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, the promotional prize (Germany)
• 2011 Roswitha Prize (Germany)
• 2011 Grant of the City of Frankfurt am Main, (Germany)
• 2012 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (Klagenfurt, Austria)
• 2015 Berliner Literaturpreis (Germany)^[7]

References

• Новой Камеры хранения: Ольга Мартынова, biographical sketch in Russian
• Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Promotional Prize 2011, biographical sketch in English

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.

External links

• The posthumous victory of socialist realism, an essay by Olga Martynova
• The source we drink from, an essay on OBERIU by Olga Martynova
• Moscow revisited, an essay by Olga Martynova
• Смерть Поэта, the poem by Olga Martynova that won the Aronzon's Butterfly Prize in 2010