Anna Orlitskaya
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Anna Orlitskaya
Moscow, Russia

Anna Orlitskaya is a poet and translator. She graduated from the Russian State University for the Humanities with a degree in linguistics; later, she studied psychology at the Moscow School of Practical Psychology at the Higher School of Economics. She works as a Spanish teacher. Anna’s poems and translations were published in Russian literary magazines, such as Воздух, Дети Ра, Зинзивер, Среда, Артикуляция, Полутона, etc. Anna is the author of The Tree of Meanings (2020), a book of poems. She translates contemporary poetry from Romance languages (Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician), and she is a co-editor of Modern Russian Free Verse (2019), as well as a member of the organizing committee of the Free Poetry Festivals and the editorial board of a bilingual series of contemporary poetry translated from the languages of Spain and Latin America at the Free Poetry publishing house. She was a finalist of the Debut Award in Poetry (2010). Her poems have been translated into English, Spanish, and French. She lives in Moscow.

Bookshelf
100 pms war
by Julia Nemirovskaya, editor

This excellent anthology, compiled and edited by Julia Nemirovskaya, showcases poems by Russian (and Russian-speaking) poets who express their absolute rejection of Russia’s war against Ukraine.

DesyatyjKrug
by David Gay

The documentary novel “The Tenth Circle” tells the story of the life, struggle, and destruction of the Minsk ghetto, one of the largest in the Soviet Union and Europe during World War II. (Russian edition)

22.Golden on Amazon(1)
by Charles Whittaker

Selected poems of Charles Whittaker.

1. cover for EWLF Sept. 11 2024. FINAL BOOK_cover Opravdanie martyshki (1)
by Nina Kossman

“Monkey’s Defense” is a collection of short stories and parables by Nina Kossman, bilingual author of several books of poetry and prose and translator of Marina Tsvetaeva’s poems into English.

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