Galina Rymbu (Russian: Галина Георгиевна Рымбу) (born 20 July 1990,

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) is a Russian poet, author, translator, and curator.

Life and career

Rymbu was a student in the philology and theology departments of Omsk Pedagogical University and graduated from the

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. She went on to a Master's program in socio-political philosophy at the

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and then to teach at the Saint Petersburg School of New Cinema. She has lived in

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since 2018. She is an activist as well as a writer affiliated with Isolarii. Rymbu's earliest work appeared in Omsk regional publications and in online publications. Subsequently her work began to be published in ''Vozdukh'', ''ShO'', ''Volga'', ''Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie'', ''Gvideon'', ''Translit'', ''Snob'', and on website
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Polutona, Megalit, Setevaia slovesnost', and Na seredine mira. Her poetry has appeared in English translation in many international journals, including ''

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'', '' Arc Poetry'', ''

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'', ''Berlin Quarterly'', ''Music & Literature'', ''

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'', ''Powder Keg'' and others. Rymbu's poetry collections are published in Latvian and Dutch translations. Her poetry has also been translated into German, Spanish, Swedish, Italian, Polish, and Ukrainian. Rymbu also does translations of poetry from Ukrainian into Russian. She is primarily interested in poetry as a form of public speech and thought. Rymbu edited and contributed to '' F Letter: New Russian Feminist Poetry'', the first anthology of feminist poetry from Russia.

Awards and honors

Rymbu was longlisted for the "Debiut" prize 2009, and short listed for the same prize in 2010. In 2010 she was also one of three finalists for the ""LiteraturRRentgen" prize, took second place in the Moscow poetry slam, and won the grand prize in the Molodoi literator festival in Nizhnyi Novgorod. She was a winner of the "Moskovskii schet" prize (2014) and the ''Poetry Without Borders'' International Festival poetry prize (Riga, 2017).The festival “Poetry without borders” took place in Riga
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References

External links

Bibliography of poetry in English translation

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