12 Facts About Inna Lisnyanskaya

Inna Lisnyanskaya or Inna Lisnianskaya was a Jewish-Russian poet from USSR, later Russia.

Inna Lisnyanskaya was a recipient of the Solzhenitsyn Prize and Russia's Poet Prize.

Inna Lisnyanskaya's Armenian grandmother baptized her in Armenian Orthodoxy when she was a child.

Inna Lisnyanskaya grew up in Baku, in a house where three languages were present: Yiddish, Russian and Armenian.

When Inna Lisnyanskaya was a 5 grade class pupil, she worked as an aide in an Azerbaijani Military Hospital during the last period of World War II where Soviet soldiers with facial wounds were treated.

Inna Lisnyanskaya Lisyanskaya spent a year in Baku State University, then dropped out.

Inna Lisnyanskaya began writing some poetry, as well as translations from Azerbaijani to Russian in 1948.

Once, Inna Lisnyanskaya Lisyanskaya was, in early 1960s, listening to Semyon Lipkin reading his poetry about World War II in Moscow Central Writers' House, later they met in 1967 and married.

Inna Lisnyanskaya said in an interview in 1990, that the prohibitions were even good for her poetic work, because she ceased to be forced to censor herself for Soviet publications, because she was not anymore writing for the Soviet Union, but only for close friends.

Inna Lisnyanskaya became a major Soviet poet, her first Russian book of poetry, Poems, was printed in 1991, and she was awarded with the Solzhenitsyn Prize and Russia's Poet Prize.

Inna Lisnyanskaya was one of the organizers of the Russian Pen Center.

Inna Lisnyanskaya's poetry was once called by poet Elaine Feinstein as an echo of tradition of Anna Akhmatova's great poetry and a transcendence of particular language:.