Novella Matveyeva

Novella Matveyeva

Novella Nikolayevna Matveyeva (Russian: Новелла Николаевна Матвеева; 7 October 1934 – 4 September 2016) was a Russian bard, poet, writer, screenwriter, dramatist, and literary scientist.[1][2][3][4]

Her first collection of poetry was publishhed in 1961, the same year she was admitted to the Union of Soviet Writers.[1]

From the end of the 1950s on Matveyeva composed songs to her poetry and performed them, accompanying herself on a seven-string guitar.

In 1998 Matveyeva received the Russian State Pushkin Prize in poetry,[5] and in 2002, she received the Russian Federation State Prize in Literature and Arts for her poetry collection Jasmine.[6]

Matveyeva died on 4 September 2016 at the age of 81.[7]

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