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. 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:

In German:

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


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

Awards and grants

References

  1. "Olga Martynova" (in German). Herrmann-Lenz-Preis. Retrieved 2008-07-08. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. "Biographies - Poets". poetrymagazines.org.uk. Retrieved 2008-07-08.
  3. "Hermann-Lenz-Preis 2000" (in German). Hermann-Lenz-Preis. Retrieved 2008-07-08.
  4. "An Anthology of Contemporary Russian Women Poets" p232 Valentina Polukhina, Daniel Weissbort 2005 University of Iowa Press ISBN 0-87745-947-9