Olga Martynova (born in 1962 in

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, Russia) is a Russian-German writer. She writes poems in Russian, and prose and essays in German. Olga Martynova grew up in

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where she studied Russian literature and language and was active in various literary circles. After an exchange in Berlin in 1990, she moved in 1991 with her husband, the Russian poet, novelist and playwright Oleg Yuriev (1959–2018), and their son Daniel to

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, where they currently live. Her numerous contributions in German-language periodicals have been translated into English, Polish, Slovakian, Bulgarian, Danish and, more recently, Russian. Her Russian poems have been translated, sometimes even self-translated, into German, English, Italian, Albanian and French. She also works as an essayist and reviewer for newspapers such as the ''Neue Zürcher Zeitung'', ''Die Zeit'' and ''the Frankfurter Rundschau''. Martynova was awarded the Hubert Burda Preis für junge Lyrik for poets from Eastern, Southern and Central Europe in 2000. The 2006 book ''Rom liegt irgendwo in Russland'' (Rome lies somewhere in Russia) was written in collaboration with her friend, the Russian poet Elena Shvarts. In 2010 she published her first novel, ''Sogar Papageien überleben uns'' (''Even Parrots Survive Us''), that tells in short sketches the story of a St. Petersburg literary scholar in Germany because of a literary conference, and seeking to reconnect with her former lover. The book made it onto the longlist of the German Book Prize and the shortlist of the aspekte-literature prize. In 2012 Martynova won the prestigious Ingeborg-Bachmann-Prize with her text "Ich werde sagen: "Hi!". The story, with references to cultural history, focuses on a young man who experiences the simultaneous awakening of erotic feelings and an interest in poetry.

Bibliography

In Russian

Source: *''Postup´yanvarskikh sadov'' (poems), Moscow 1989 (in the convolute ''Kamera khraneniya'') *''Sumas`shedshiy kuznechik'' (poems), St Petersburg 1994 *''Chetyre vremeni nochi'' (poems), St Petersburg 1998 *''Frantsuzskaia biblioteka'' (poems), Moscow 2007 *''O Vvedenskom. O Chvirike i Chvirke'' / Issledovaniya v stikhakh (poems), Moscow 2010 (Russian Prize 2009, the long list).

In German

*''Brief an die Zypressen'' (poems), Rimbaud, Aachen 2001, . *''Wer schenkt was wem'' (essays and book reviews), Rimbaud, Aachen 2003, . *''In der Zugluft Europas'' (poems), Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2009, . *''Sogar Papageien überleben uns'' (a novel), Droschl, Graz 2009, – the long list of the German Bookprize 2010, the short list of the Aspekte-Prize of the

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(2010), Adalbert-von-Chamisso-Prize 2011, Roswitha-Prize 2011. * ''Zwischen den Tischen''. Olga Martynova und Oleg Jurjew im essayistischen Dialog. Bernstein, Bonn 2011, (essays by Olga Martynova and Oleg Yuriev). * ''Von Tschwirik und Tschwirka'' (poems). Droschl, Graz 2012, . * ''Mörikes Schlüsselbein'' (a novel), Droschl, Graz 2013, . * ''Der Engelherd'' (a novel), S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt/Main 2016 . * ''Über die Dummheit der Stunde'' ssays S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt/Main 2018 . In German and Russian (bilingual; in collaboration with Jelena Schwarz): *''Rom liegt irgendwo in Russland: Zwei russische Dichterinnen im lyrischen Dialog über Rom'', Edition per Procura, Vienna 2006, . Poems by Martynova were translated to German, English, French, Italian.

Awards and grants

* 2000 Hubert-Burda-Preis für junge Lyrik (Germany) * 2005 Grant of the Baltic Center for Translators and Authors in

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(Sweden) * 2007 Grant of the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben, Edenkoben, (Germany) * 2009 Long list of the "Russian Prize" (Russia), for ''O Vvedenskom. O Chvirike i Chvirke'' / ''Issledovaniya v stikhakh'' * 2010 Long list of the

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(Germany), for ''Sogar Papageien überleben uns'' * 2010 Short list of the

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(for ''Sogar Papageien überleben uns'') (Germany) * 2010 Babochka Aronzona (Aronzon's Butterfly), the annual prize of the literary site "Novaya kamera khranenia" for the poem of the year (Russia) * 2011

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, the promotional prize (Germany) * 2011

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(Germany) * 2011 Grant of the City of

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, (Germany) * 2012 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize ( Klagenfurt,

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) * 2015 Berliner Literaturpreis (Germany) * 2025

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References

Новой Камеры хранения: Ольга Мартынова
biographical sketch in Russian
Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Promotional Prize 2011
biographical sketch in English

External links

"The posthumous victory of socialist realism"
an essay by Olga Martynova

an essay on

OBERIU OBERIU (Russian: ОБЭРИУ - Объединение реального искусства; English: the Union of Real Art or the Association for Real Art) was a short-lived avant-garde collective of Russian Futurist writers, musicians, and ar ...

by Olga Martynova
"Moscow revisited"
an essay by Olga Martynova

the poem by Olga Martynova that won the Aronzon's Butterfly Prize in 2010 {{DEFAULTSORT:Martynova, Olga Russian women poets 1962 births Living people People from Krasnoyarsk Krai Russian people of German descent Russian-language poets German-language writers Herzen University alumni