Olga Martynova

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. Her book “Rom liegt irgendwo in Russland. Zwei russische Dichterinnen im lyrischen Dialog über Rom“ (Rome lies somewhere in Russia. Two Russian poets in a literary dialogue about Rome), which was written in collaboration with her friend Elena Schwarz, was published by Per Procura. She was awarded the Hubert Burda Preis für junge Lyrik for poets from Eastern, Southern and Central Europe in 2000.^[3]

Bibliography^[4]

In Russian:

• 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), Aachen 2001
• Wer schenkt was wem (essays and book reviews), Aachen 2003
• In der Zugluft Europas (poems), Heidelberg 2009
• Sogar Papageien überleben uns (a novel), Graz 2009 - the long list of the German Bookprize 2010, the short list of the Aspekte-Prize der German Television 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).

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

• Rom liegt irgendwo in Russland, Lana - Vienna 2006

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)
• 2011 Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, the promotional prize (Germany)
• 2011 Roswitha Prize (Germany)
• 2011 Grant of the City of Frankfurt am Main, (Germany)

References

• 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
• Adelbert von Chamisso Prize
• Aronzon's Butterfly - 2010