Olga Martynova

After an exchange in Berlin in 1990, she moved in 1991 with her husband, the Russian poet, novelist and playwright Oleg Yuriev (1959–2018), and their son Daniel to Frankfurt, where they currently live. Her numerous contributions in German-language periodicals have been translated into English, Polish, Slovakian, Bulgarian, Danish and, more recently, Russian. Her Russian poems have been translated, sometimes even self-translated, into German, English, Italian, Albanian and French. She also works as an essayist and reviewer for newspapers such as the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Die Zeit and the Frankfurter Rundschau. Martynova was awarded the Hubert Burda Preis für junge Lyrik for poets from Eastern, Southern and Central Europe in 2000. The 2006 book Rom liegt irgendwo in Russland (Rome lies somewhere in Russia) was written in collaboration with her friend, the Russian poet Elena Shvarts. In 2010 she published her first novel, Sogar Papageien überleben uns (Even Parrots Survive Us), that tells in short sketches the story of a St. Petersburg literary scholar in Germany because of a literary conference, and seeking to reconnect with her former lover. The book made it onto the longlist of the German Book Prize and the shortlist of the aspekte-literature prize. In 2012 Martynova won the prestigious Ingeborg-Bachmann-Prize with her text "Ich werde sagen: "Hi!". The story, with references to cultural history, focuses on a young man who experiences the simultaneous awakening of erotic feelings and an interest in poetry.

Olga Martynova studied at Herzen University. The recorded working language is German and Russian. The field of work recorded is poetry. Places of work recorded in the authority are Frankfurt. Distinctions recorded are Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, Berliner Literaturpreis, Adelbert von Chamisso Prize (award of sponsorship) and Roswitha Prize.

Source: • Postup´yanvarskikh sadov (poems), Moscow 1989 (in the convolute Kamera khraneniya) • Sumas`shedshiy kuznechik (poems), St Petersburg 1994 • Chetyre vremeni nochi (poems), St Petersburg 1998 • Frantsuzskaia biblioteka (poems), Moscow 2007 • O Vvedenskom. O Chvirike i Chvirke / Issledovaniya v stikhakh (poems), Moscow 2010 (Russian Prize 2009, the long list).

• Brief an die Zypressen (poems), Rimbaud, Aachen 2001,. • Wer schenkt was wem (essays and book reviews), Rimbaud, Aachen 2003,. • In der Zugluft Europas (poems), Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2009,. • Sogar Papageien überleben uns (a novel), Droschl, Graz 2009, – the long list of the German Bookprize 2010, the short list of the Aspekte-Prize of the ZDF (2010), Adalbert-von-Chamisso-Prize 2011, Roswitha-Prize 2011. • Zwischen den Tischen. Olga Martynova und Oleg Jurjew im essayistischen Dialog. Bernstein, Bonn 2011, (essays by Olga Martynova and Oleg Yuriev). • Von Tschwirik und Tschwirka (poems). Droschl, Graz 2012,. • Mörikes Schlüsselbein (a novel), Droschl, Graz 2013,. • Der Engelherd (a novel), S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt/Main 2016. • Über die Dummheit der Stunde [essays]. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt/Main 2018. In German and Russian (bilingual; in collaboration with Jelena Schwarz): • Rom liegt irgendwo in Russland: Zwei russische Dichterinnen im lyrischen Dialog über Rom, Edition per Procura, Vienna 2006,. Poems by Martynova were translated to German, English, French, Italian.

Olga Martynova is recorded with the occupation translator. Recorded as having received Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, Berliner Literaturpreis and Adelbert von Chamisso Prize (award of sponsorship).