Alexandra petrova biography
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Alexandra Petrova on migrations, Rome and her Appendix
Please join us on Monday, February 12th for "The Quadratura of Myth; or Thirty White Piglets on the Road of Fate”, a talk by Alexandra Petrova on migrations, Rome and her Appendix.
Rome-based Russian-language poet and prose writer Alexandra Petrova discusses her recent novel, Appendix, which explores the ins and outs of migration / immigration / emigre existence against the background of the Eternal City — her adopted home and that of millions of immigrants stretching from yesterday’s Libyan refugees to luminaries of the ancient world.
Alexandra Petrova was born in St. Petersburg when it still was called Leningrad. She studied Russian language and literature at the University of Tartu (where she attende Yuri Lotman’s seminar on 19th century literature), writing a thesis on the prose of Leonid Dobychin. In she immigrated to Jerusalem, where she studied art history at Hebrew University. Since she has lived in Rome.
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Alexandra Petrova
Hometown: Russia
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Alexandra Petrova was born in Russia, lived in Jerusalem, and currently resides in Rome. She is the author of three collections of Russian poetry; their English titles are Point of Detachment, Residence Permit, and Just the Trees. Her poems have appeared in the Russian magazines: Znamia, Zvezda, and Zerkalo; in English in Literary Revue, Modern Poetry in Translation, Drunken Boat, Guernica, and many more. She has also written a libretto for an Russian operetta titled (in English) &#;Dolly&#;s Shepherds, A Philosophical Play.&#;
Alexandra was short listed for the Andrej Belyj award in Moscow (, ) and she has received awards from the &#;Migrante&#; European Poetry meeting (), Belgrade&#;s Festival of Poetry Trceg TRG (), and the Torino Festival&#;s Sixth Annual National Mother Language Literary Competition (). She is currently at work on her first novel. She comes to Sitka through the International Wr
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Multilingual Poetics: Alexandra Petrova
Alexandra Petrova was born in Saint Petersburg when it still was called Leningrad. She studied in Tartu, and in she immigrated to Jerusalem. Since she has lived in Rome. Her three volumes of poetry are Liniia otryva (Point of Detachmentor Edge of the Precipice, ), Vid na zhitel’stvo (License to Live, Residence Permitor A View on Existence, with introduction by Alexandr Goldshtejn, ), Tol’ko derevia (Only the trees, introduction by Stephanie Sandler, ). In , she published a philosophical operetta entitled Pastukhi Dolly (The fåraherde of Dolly), a play in ten acts that recounts a tale of cloning in pastoral terms. Her works have been published in leading Russian magazines, such as Znamia, Mitin zhurnal, Zerkalo, and Zvezda. Her prose and poems have been translated into several languages. She was short-listed for the Andrei Belyj Prize in and in