Bella Akhmadulina
Bella ( Isabella ) Achatowna Akhmadulina (Russian Белла Ахатовна Ахмадулина, scientific transliteration Bella Achatovna Akhmadulina; born April 10, 1937 in Moscow, † 29 November, 2010 Peredelkino ) was a Russian poet, translator and essayist.
She directed her paternal origin of Tatars and Russian-Italian family from mother's side. She was one of the youngest representatives of the generation of poets of the Soviet thaw, which again produced a more personal, more "intimate " poetry after the death of Stalin.
Life and career
Still at school - 1954 - Bella Akhmadulina published her first poems in the journal October ( Октябрь ). Since 1955, she studied very successfully at the Moscow Maxim Gorky Literature Institute, from which she graduated in 1960. It helped her poets such as Yevtushenko and Rozhdestvensky together with older poets to an extraordinary popularity. Published in 1962 a first collection of poems under the title The string ( Струна ), which provoked attention in circles colleagues.
In subsequent years, the volumes chills Poems ( Стихи, 1975) and snow ( Метель, 1977) appeared ( Озноб, 1968), music lessons ( Уроки музыки, 1969). Travel to Georgia in the 1970s sparked a passion for the Georgian culture and literature. She transferred successfully works Georgian poets into Russian, among other things, Titian and Irakli Abashidze Tabidse. Your poetry collections The Candle ( Свеча, 1977) and Grusinischer dream ( Сны о Грузии, 1979) show the influence of that culture on their work.
Her articles appeared in the 80s volumes of poetry secrets ( Тайна 1983), The Garden ( Сад, 1987) and selection ( Избранное ) were supplemented by acclaimed essays on Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov.
Achmadulinas poetry is marked by a melancholy tone and the working out of general importance of concrete, often everyday moments. Examples include the poems scooter ( Мотороллер, 1959), tape recorder ( Магнитофон ) or soda ( Газированная вода ). Her poetry was often applied to the intonation of the oral presentation.
Although she gave up political issues in her work, she was not an unpolitical man. In the 1970s under Brezhnev, it pushed one of the few for persecuted and oppressed colleagues. In 1989 she was awarded the USSR State Prize for his collection of poems The Garden; besides, she was an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko Akhmadulina was first wife.