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

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.