Junna Petrovna Moriz
Junna Petrovna Moriz ( Russian Ю́нна Петро́вна Мо́риц ; born June 2, 1937 in Kiev ) is a Russian poet and translator.
Life
She published her first poems in 1954 and in 1957 her first volume of poetry was published. In 1961 she graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow . She had to struggle with repression by the state apparatus at an early stage and was expelled from Moscow in 1957. Her books were not published from 1961 to 1970, because back then so-called black lists existed for publishers and censors.
Moriz also wrote adaptations of foreign language poetry, e.g. B. from Spanish, Modern Greek and Yiddish. A translator and a poet worked together on this commissioned work.
Despite these political influences on her work, Junna Moriz is not a political but a lyrical poet. Her poems are written in the tradition of classical poetry, but can still be described as absolutely modern. She herself says of her poetic influences: My constant contemporary was Pushkin , the closest companions Pasternak , Akhmatova , Tsvetaeva and Mandelstam , but my teachers were Andrei Platonow and Thomas Mann .
literature
- Elaine Feinstein : Three Russian Poets: Margarita Aliger , Yunna Morits, Bella Achmadulina . Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1976
Web links
- Official Website (Russian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moriz, Junna Petrovna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Мо́риц, Ю́нна Петро́вна (Russian); Moric, Junna P .; Morits, Yunna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian poet and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 2, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiev |