Novella Matveyeva

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]

• Swallow's School «Ласточкина школа» (1973)
• River «Река» (1978)
• The Law of Songs «Закон песен» (1983)
• Land of the Tide «Страна прибоя» (1983)
• Rabbit Village «Кроличья деревня» (1984)
• Selected «Избранное» (1986)
• Praise to Work «Хвала работе» (1987)
• Unbreakable Circle «Нерасторжимый круг» (1991)
• A Melody for the Guitar «Мелодия для гитары» (1998)
• Cassette of Dreams «Кассета снов» (1998)
• Sonnets «Сонеты» (1999)
• Caravan «Караван» (2000)
• Jasmine «Жасмин»(2011).

• Медынский Г. Песенная поэзия Новеллы Матвеевой, «Юность», 1966, No. 7
• Приходько В. Душа и плоть поэзии, «Дружба народов», 1967, No. 2.
• Рунин Б. Далёкое и близкое. «Новый мир», 1964, No. 5

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