Biography Vera Pavlova

Vera Pavlova is the author of twenty three poetry collections, four-opera librettos, and lyrics to two cantatas and numerous essays on musicology. She was born in Moscow, graduated from the Gnessin Academy, specializing in the history of music. One of the signature characteristics of her work is the concision and precision of her poems. Her poems often take the shape of lyric narratives, incorporating elements of dream and memory, her own childhood and the state of childhood generally. In Knopf Interview Vera stated, “I resort to writing whenever I feel unbearably happy or unbearably miserable.” Her work has been translated into 27 languages. Her collection Album for the Young (and Old), translated by late Stephen Seymour, was recently published by Alfred A. Knopf. She is a best-selling poet in Russia and now makes her home in Toronto.

Sources

Mishler Peter. Vera Pavlova Writes Poems To Be Read By the Light of a Single Match. The Hub. 2017