Nina Abramovna Voronel

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Nina Abramovna Voronel ( Russian: Нина Абрамовна Воронель , maiden name Roginkina / Рогинкина ; born February 28, 1932 in Kharkov ) is a Russian - Ukrainian - Israeli physicist and writer .

Life

Nina, daughter of an economics professor , graduated from Kharkov University in 1954 with a degree in physics . After meeting Kornei Ivanovich Chukovsky , she decided to turn to literature . 1956–1960 she studied at the Maxim Gorki Literature Institute specializing in translations from English literature. In 1961 her translation of Oscar Wilde's poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol was widely recognized. In 1965 she wrote her first short stories for children. Her first play Read the Letter! (1968) was banned after the first performance in Perm and the director was dismissed. She could not have anything listed or published on it. Her other pieces have now been published by her husband, the physicist Alexander Vladimirovich Voronel , in his samizdat magazine Jews in the USSR .

In 1972 Nina applied to leave the USSR for Israel , which she was allowed to do in 1974. In 1975 she received Israeli citizenship. She is the editor of the popular quarterly Russian- language literary magazine 22 in Tel Aviv and has a son, Vladimir. In 2003 her translation of the novel Mr. Collector's Planet by Saul Bellow was published . Her memoirs are controversial.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Union Moscow-Jerusalem 22: About Us (Russian, accessed on July 13, 2016).
  2. ↑ Nina Woronel: Excerpt from the Land of the Soviets (Russian, accessed on July 14, 2016).
  3. ^ W. Kasack : Lexicon of Russian Literature from 1917 . 2nd Edition. Sagner, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-87690-459-5 .
  4. ↑ Нина Воронель: Без прикрас . Захаров, Москва 2003, ISBN 5-8159-0313-2 .
  5. ↑ Nina Woronel's Memoirs (Russian, accessed July 14, 2016).
  6. ↑ Roman Romow: About a book sin the artist Grobman and funeral maggots (Russian, accessed on July 14, 2016).
personal data
SURNAME Voronel, Nina Abramovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Воронель, Нина Абрамовна (Russian); Voronel, Nina Abramovna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Kharkov