Elena Shvarts, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Elena Shvarts

Russian poet

Date of Birth: 17-May-1948

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg

Date of Death: 11-Mar-2010

Profession: writer, poet, translator, author

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Elena Shvarts

  • Elena Andreyevna Shvarts (Russian: ????? ????????? ?????) (17 May 1948 – 11 March 2010) was a Russian poet.Born in Leningrad, where she lived her entire life, Shvarts attended the University of Tartu, where her first poems were published in the university newspaper in 1973.
  • After that, however, she did not publish for another decade in her own country; her work began to appear in émigré journals in 1978, and she published two collections of poetry (Tantsuyushchii David and Stikhi) and a novel in verse (Trudy i dni Lavinii) abroad before a collection (Storony sveta) was allowed to be published in the Soviet Union, "bringing her immediate recognition both at home and abroad." Birdsong escaping from a cage is a metaphor running through her work.

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