Novella Matveyeva

Novella Matveyeva

Novella Nikolayevna Matveyeva (Russian: Новелла Николаевна Матвеева) (born October 7, 1934, Detskoye Selo, Russia^[1]) is a Russian bard (singer-songwriter), poet, writer, screenwriter, dramatist, and literary scientist.^[2][3]

Her first collection of poetry was publishhed in 1961, the same year she was admitted to the Union of Soviet Writers.^[1]

Since the end of the 1950s, Novella Matveyeva has been composing songs to her poetry and performing them, accompanying herself on a seven-string guitar.

In 1998, Novella Matveyeva received the Russian State Pushkin Prize in poetry,^[4] and in 2002, she also received the Russian Federation State Prize in Literature and Arts for her poetry collection Jasmine.^[5]

Books

• Swallow's School «Ласточкина школа» (1973)
• River «Река» (1978)
• The Law of Songs «Закон песен» (1983)
• Land of the Tide «Страна прибоя» (1983)
• Rabbit Village «Кроличья деревня» (1984)
• Selected «Избранное» (1986)
• Praise to Work «Хвала работе» (1987)
• Unbreakable Circle «Нерасторжимый круг» (1991)
• A Melody for the Guitar «Мелодия для гитары» (1998)
• Cassette of Dreams «Кассета снов» (1998)
• Sonnets «Сонеты» (1999)
• Caravan «Караван» (2000)
• Jasmine «Жасмин»(2011).

References

Further reading

• Медынский Г. Песенная поэзия Новеллы Матвеевой, «Юность», 1966, № 7
• Приходько В. Душа и плоть поэзии, «Дружба народов», 1967, № 2.
• Рунин Б. Далёкое и близкое. «Новый мир», 1964, № 5