Zinaida Palvanova
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Zinaida Palvanova
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Zinaida Palvanova was born in Mordovia into a family of “enemies of the people” released from Temlag. Her post-war childhood was spent in the Moscow region, a hundred kilometers from the capital. She lived in Moscow since 1963 until her emigration in 1990. While living in Moscow, she worked many odd jobs as a linotypist, nurse, sociologist, security guard, etc. She was married to Victor Enyutin, a poet, writer, and thinker, who emigrated from the USSR in 1975. In 1983, she was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR. Her poems and translations were published in major Russian literary magazines, e.g. Novyi Mir, Druzhba Narodov, The Continent, Yunost, Neva, Ogonyok, 22, Aleph, Artikl’, Interpoezia, Ierusalimsky Zhurnal, Literaturnaya Gazeta, the almanacs Day of Poetry, Tsomet, and many other periodicals. A winner of several literary awards, she has authored fifteen books of poetry.

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)

1. Dislocation
by Julia Nemirovskaya and Anna Krushelnitskaya, editors

This collection focuses on the war between Russia and Ukraine as seen by Russophone poets from all over the world.

Videos
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EastWest Literary Forum Bilingual Poetry & Prose Reading. July 13, 2025.
Length: 2 hrs. 08 min