Galina Rymbu (Russian: Галина Георгиевна Рымбу) (born 20 July 1990, Omsk) is a Russian poet, author, translator, and curator.

Life and career

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Rymbu was a student in the philology and theology departments of Omsk Pedagogical University and graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. She went on to a Master's program in socio-political philosophy at the European University at Saint Petersburg and then to teach at the Saint Petersburg School of New Cinema. She has lived in L'viv since 2018. She is an activist as well as a writer affiliated with Isolarii. [1]

Rymbu's earliest work appeared in Omsk regional publications and in online publications.[2] Subsequently her work began to be published in Vozdukh, ShO, Volga, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, Gvideon,[3] Translit,[4] Snob,[5][6] and on websites Colta.ru,[7][8] Polutona,[9] Megalit,[10] Setevaia slovesnost',[11] and Na seredine mira. Her poetry has appeared in English translation in many international journals, including n+1, Arc Poetry, The White Review, Berlin Quarterly, Music & Literature, Asymptote, Powder Keg and others.[12] Rymbu's poetry collections are published in Latvian and Dutch translations. Her poetry has also been translated into German, Spanish, Swedish, Italian, Polish, and Ukrainian.

Rymbu also does translations of poetry from Ukrainian into Russian. She is primarily interested in poetry as a form of public speech and thought.[13] Rymbu edited and contributed to F Letter: New Russian Feminist Poetry, the first anthology of feminist poetry from Russia.


Awards and honors

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Rymbu was longlisted for the "Debiut" prize 2009, and short listed for the same prize in 2010. In 2010 she was also one of three finalists for the ""LiteraturRRentgen" prize, took second place in the Moscow poetry slam, and won the grand prize in the Molodoi literator festival in Nizhnyi Novgorod. She was a winner of the "Moskovskii schet" prize (2014) and the Poetry Without Borders International Festival poetry prize (Riga, 2017).[14]

References

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  1. ^ "As it marks the centenary of 1917, is Russia on the brink of another revolution?", The Independent, 1 March 2017
  2. ^ "Рымбу Галина Георгиевна". Литературный Омск. БУК г. Омска «ОМБ». Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  3. ^ "Презентация молодежного номера журнала "Гвидеон"". kultinfo.ru. Культурная Инициатива. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  4. ^ "#14 [Транслит] литературно-критический альманах". Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  5. ^ Rymbu, Galina (September 16, 2018). "Галина Рымбу. Фрагменты из «Книги упадка»". Сноб. Retrieved May 22, 2019.
  6. ^ Rymbu, Galina (April 28, 2017). "Галина Рымбу: Красные камни". Сноб. Retrieved May 22, 2019.
  7. ^ Rymbu, Galina (October 10, 2018). "Археология «женского письма»: ГАЛИНА РЫМБУ О РОМАНЕ ЛЮБОВИ КОПЫЛОВОЙ «ОДЕЯЛО ИЗ ЛОСКУТЬЕВ»". COLTA.ru. Retrieved May 22, 2019.
  8. ^ Rymbu, Galina (July 3, 2014). "Вспомнить Холина: НАСЛЕДИЕ СОВЕТСКОГО АНДЕГРАУНДА СЕГОДНЯ: ГАЛИНА РЫМБУ ПОЛЕМИЗИРУЕТ СО СТАТЬЕЙ АЛЕКСЕЯ КОНАКОВА". COLTA.ru. Retrieved May 22, 2019.
  9. ^ Rymbu, Galina (November 22, 2017). "Фрагменты из цикла «лишенные признаков»". Полутона. Retrieved May 22, 2019.
  10. ^ "Авторы Мегалита: Рымбу Галина". Мегалит. Retrieved May 22, 2019.
  11. ^ Rymbu, Galina. "Поэзия: Галина Рымбу: Синтаксис утраченной речи". Retrieved May 22, 2019.
  12. ^ "Resources – Your language my ear // Твой язык моё ухо". web.sas.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
  13. ^ "Love as Principled Powerlessness: An Interview With Russian Poet Galina Rymbu", Poetry Foundation, 8 February 2016
  14. ^ The festival “Poetry without borders” took place in Riga
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