Natalya Gorbanevskaya

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Gorbanevskaya at the balcony of the library "Russian abroad", Moscow, 19.09.2005
Gorbanevskaya at the balcony of the library "Russian abroad", Moscow, 19.09.2005

Natalya Gorbanevskaya (Наталья Евгеньевна Горбаневская) (born May 26, 1936 in Moscow) is a Russian poet, translator of Polish literature and civil rights activist.

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[edit] Life

She graduated from Leningrad University in 1964 and became a technical editor and translator. Only nine of her poems have been published in official journals, the remainder being privately circulated or published abroad.

Gorbanevskaya was one of seven protesters to demonstrate in Red Square on 25 August 1968 against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia (see 1968 Red Square demonstration). Having recently given birth she was not tried with the other demonstrators, and wrote an account of the trial, Noon, published abroad as Red Square at Noon. However, she was arrested in December, 1969 and imprisoned in a Soviet psychiatric prison till February, 1972[1].

In December, 1975, Gorbanevskaya emigrated, and now lives in Paris.

One of the Joan Baez's songs, called "Natalia", released on a live album "From Every Stage" (1976), is dedicated to Natalia Gorbaneyvskaya. Introducing the song at the concert, Joan Baez would say about Natalia's imprisonment in the psychiatric hospital.

In 2005 Gorbanevskaya participated in "They Chose Freedom", a four-part television documentary on the history of the Soviet dissident movement.

[edit] Books

Gorbanevskaya, Natalya, Poems, Carcanet Press, 1972, ISBN 0-85635-002-8

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[edit] References

  1. ^ «Хроника текущих событий», выпуск 24 (in Russian).

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