Olga Sedakova (poet)
Olga Alexandrovna Sedakova (
Sedakova was born in Moscow to a family of a military engineer.[3] At an early age, she traveled with her father overseas, enabling her to gain a different view of the world.[3] She graduated from Moscow State University (faculty of philology) in 1973.[3] Subsequently, she went to graduate school. In 1985, she obtained a degree of Candidate of Sciences (philology).[4] She befriended Venedikt Yerofeyev and kept the manuscript of Moscow-Petushki in her house.[5]
A deeply religious person, Sedakova started writing poetry in 1960. Her Christian themes made her Neoclassical works unpublishable in the Soviet Union until 1989. As of 2014, she has authored seven books of poetry. Her poems were translated into a number of languages including English, French, German, and Italian.[4]
It was through her mentor
Sedakova is the recipient of several major literary prizes, including the Andrei Bely Prize (1980), Paris Prize for Russian Poets (1991), European Prize in Poetry (1995), Vladimir Solovyov Prize for Advancement of Culture (1998),[7] and Solzhenitsyn Prize (2001).[8]
References
- ISBN 9789057025938; p. 33.
- ISBN 978-0-8387-5691-1.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-299-32010-2.
- ^ a b Ольга Александровна Седакова (in Russian). Журнальный зал в РЖ, "Русский журнал". Retrieved 11 September 2014.
- ^ "Школа Злословия - Ольга Седакова (4)". YouTube. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
- ^ ISBN 9780838755587. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
- ISBN 0-8387-5558-5.
- ^ Ольга Седакова (in Russian). Новая литературная карта России. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
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