Elena Pavlovna Dahl (née Kornilova; born 10 February 1947 in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

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; then Leningrad, USSR), is a Russian-Swedish author and translator. She is married to the Swedish linguist Östen Dahl. She came to Sweden in 1968, where she studied literature, philosophy, and language at the

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. She worked as a teacher in Russia and as a freelance journalist for

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before moving to

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and working as a librarian and a translator, while also writing poetry. She published her first work, ''Three Russian Poets in Stockholm'', in 1996. She has translated several works from Russian, including some writings by Boris Aranovich.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dahl, Elena 1947 births Living people Writers from Stockholm Russian women poets Swedish women poets