anna akhmatova - was the pen name of anna andreevna gorenko, the leader and the heart and soul of st petersburg tradition of russian poetry in the course of half a century.
akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems to universalized, ingeniously structured cycles, such as requiem (1935-40), her tragic masterpiece on the stalinist terror. her work addresses a variety of themes including time and memory, the fate of creative women, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of stalinism.
early life
akhmatova was born in bolshoy fontan near odessa. her childhood does not appear to have been happy; her parents separated in 1905. she was educated in kiev, tsarskoe selo, and the smolny institute of st petersburg. anna started writing poetry at the age of 11, inspired by her favourite poets: racine, pushkin, and baratynsky. as her father did not want to see any verses printed under his "respectable" name, she had to adopt the surname of one of her tatar ancestors as a pseudonym.
Green the winner of the prestigious Pritzker prize (2006) for his debut novel "looking for Alaska", and his latest novel "the Fault in our stars" debuted at No. 1 on the bestseller list "new York times" in January 2012. An eponymous film adaptation, released in 2014, at the time of the premiere in the United States was number 1 in the box office, collecting over the entire period of the rental in the United States $124 438 000. In 2014 green was included in the list of "100 most influential people in the world" by Time magazine.
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