Solzhenitsyn Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 2 (1999) Winner
Inna Lisnyanskaya
インナ・リスニャンスカヤ
Inna Lisnyanskaya
Aliases:
Inna Lisnianskaya
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1928-01-01 （Baku）
- Died
- 2014-03-12 （Haifa, Israel） age 86
- Nationality
- Soviet Union, Russian
- Languages
- Russian
- Religion
- Armenian Orthodoxy
- Residence History
- Baku, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic → Peredelkino (near Moscow) → Haifa, Israel
Career
- Occupations
- Poet, Translator
- Active Years
- 1948-2014
- Affiliations
- Russian PEN Center
- Memberships
- Soviet Writer's Union (resigned)
- Influenced By
- Semyon Lipkin, Anna Akhmatova
- Influenced
- Joseph Brodsky
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baku State University | — | — | — | 1年間 | Azerbaijan |
Baku State University
Period:
1年間
Country:
Azerbaijan
Dropped out after one year
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Solzhenitsyn Prize | — | — | Solzhenitsyn Fund | 受賞 |
| — | Russia's Poet Prize | — | — | — | 受賞 |
Solzhenitsyn Prize
Organization:
Solzhenitsyn Fund
Result:
受賞
Russia's Poet Prize
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Rains and Mirrors
1983 PoetryPoetry collection.
RainMirrors
On the Verge of Sleep
1985 PoetryPoetry collection.
Sleep
Poems
1991 PoetryPoems (in Russian).
Without You
2004 PoetryPoetry collection dedicated to her husband Semyon Lipkin.
LossLove
Dreams of an Old Eve
2007 PoetryPoetry collection.
DreamsOld age
Bibliography
- Rains and Mirrors (1983)
- On the Verge of Sleep (1985)
- Poems (1991)
- Without You (2004)
- Dreams of an Old Eve (2007)
- Name of Goodbye
Translations by Author
- Translations from Azerbaijani to Russian
Translations of Works
- Far from Sodom (English, Daniel Weissbort)
- Headwaters (English, Rowan Williams)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Echo of Anna Akhmatova's traditionUnembellished naked thoughts
- Recurring Motifs
- Jewish cultureChristianityMemories of war
Legacy
Jewish-Russian poet recipient of Solzhenitsyn Prize. Lived and wrote creatively in Peredelkino with husband Semyon Lipkin.
In Popular Culture
- Praised by Joseph Brodsky
Quotes
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Naked thoughts live unembellished. That saying's a lie, you can't Twice and so forth, whatever it is. A thousandth time I enter the same river. And I see the same grey stone on the bottom, The same carp with its gristly fins ...
Source: Far from Sodom (2005)
Trivia
- Father Jewish, mother Armenian.
- Baptized in Armenian Orthodoxy by grandmother as a child.
- In 1944, publicly claimed Jewish ethnicity in protest against the Holocaust.
- Resigned from Soviet Writers' Union, leading to publication ban.
- Daughter Elena Makarova is also a writer.