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Aleksandra Petrova

Aleksandra Petrova is a Russian poet, writer and translator who won the Andrei Bely Prize in 2016 for her novel Appendix.

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Born: 30 April 1964, Saint Petersburg
Occupation: writer, poet, translator
Education: University of Tartu

Aleksandra Petrova was born in 1964 in Saint Petersburg

Aleksandra Petrova was born in Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg, on 30 April 1964. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology at the University of Tartu. She researches the Russian writer Leonid Dobycin, whose influence appears in her work.

She began publishing poems in 1990 in samizdat magazines and later in émigré Russian magazines. Her first poetry book came out in 1994. She lived in Jerusalem from 1993 to 1998 and has lived in Rome since 1998.

Her books were finalists for the Andrei Bely Prize in 1999 and 2008. Her poetry collection Only Trees won a first prize in Belgrade in its Serbian translation. In 2011 she won a special prize for a short story she wrote in Italian.

In 2016 she published her first novel, Appendix, which won the Andrei Bely Prize that year. Her poetry and prose have been translated into languages including Italian, English, Chinese, German and Hebrew.