Bio: Anzhelina Polonskaya was born in Malakhovka, a small town near Moscow. Since 1998, she has been a member of the Moscow Union of Writers and in 2003, Polonskaya became a member of the Russian PEN-centre. In 2004 an English version of her book, entitled "A Voice," appeared in the acclaimed “Writings from an Unbound Europe” series at Northwestern University Press. This book was shortlisted for the 2005 Corneliu M Popescu Prize for European Poetry in Translation. In 2013 « Paul Klee's Boat » a bilingual edition of her latest poems was published by Zephyr Press and was shortlisted for the 2014 Best Translated Book Award and 2014 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. Anzhelina Polonskaya has been awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship. The bilingual book of Selected Poems «Schwärzer als Weiß“ has been published in spring 2015 in Leipzig and represented in Leipzig Book Fair and the International Poetry day in Berlin. In 2016 her first volume of prose, Greenland has recently appeared in a German edition. Awards: International Words on Borders´ Freedom ( Ord i Grenseland ) Prize, 2016
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