Inna Lisnyanskaya

Inna Lisnyanskaya
Lisnyanskaya (Right) and her husband Semyon Lipkin (Left), 2000
Lisnyanskaya (Right) with her husband, Semyon Lipkin (left), 2000
Native name
Инна Лисянская
Born1928
Baku, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
Died2014 (aged 85–86)
Haifa, Israel
Occupation
  • Poet
  • translator
LanguageRussian
GenrePoetry, essays
Notable worksRains and Mirrors
On the Verge of Sleep
Poems (in Russian language)
Without You
Notable awards

Inna Lisnyanskaya or Inna Lisnianskaya (Russian: Инна Лиснянская; 1928 – 2014) was a Jewish-Russian poet from USSR, later Russia. Her most creative period of writing occurred in the village for poets and writers of Peredelkino near Moscow, where she lived with her husband and co-worker, Semyon Lipkin.[1] Her daughter Elena Makarova is also a well-known writer.[2] She was a recipient of the Solzhenitsyn Prize and Russia's Poet Prize.

  1. ^ Meyer, Ronald (October 1, 2015). "Cold War Dress Code: Remembering Inna Lisnyanskaya". PEN AMERICA. Archived from the original on November 27, 2019.
  2. ^ Дунаева, Нина (July 12, 2018). "Цветные виденья былого". Независимая Газета (in Russian). Archived from the original on November 26, 2019.