Novella Matveyeva
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Novella Nikolayevna Matveyeva (Russian: Новелла Николаевна Матвеева; 7 October 1934 in Pushkin, Saint Petersburg – 4 September 2016, Moscow Oblast) was a Russian bard, poet, writer, screenwriter, dramatist, and literary scientist.[1][2][3][4]
Novella was the cousin of poet Ivan Matveyev (Elagin). Her first collection of poetry was published in 1961, the same year she was admitted to the Union of Soviet Writers.[1]
From the end of the 1950s, Matveyeva composed songs to her poetry and performed them, accompanying herself on a seven-string guitar.
Matveyeva died on 4 September 2016 at the age of 81.[5]
In 1998, Matveyeva received the Russian State Pushkin Prize in poetry,[6] and in 2002, she received the Russian Federation State Prize in Literature and Arts for her poetry collection Jasmine.[7]
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