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Anna Akhmatova: Works
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Excluded from public life and from the Soviet Writers' Union, Akhmatova lived on a meager pension, and earned extra income by translating works of other writers, such as Victor Hugo, Rabindranath Tagore, and Giacomo Leopardi. She ... wrote memoirs on Aleksandr Blok, Amedeo Modigliani, and Osip Mandelstam.
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In addition to this Award, the Foundation will ... give other grants to support the work of American authors whose writings reflect, in some way, the literary interests of Anna Akhmatova. These grants will be awarded by the internal nomination, to support the publication and promotion of such works. More information on this program will be available soon.
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Akhmatova executed a number of superb translations of the works of other poets, including Victor Hugo, Rabindranath Tagore, Giacomo Leopardi, and various Armenian and Korean poets. She ... wrote sensitive personal memoirs on Symbolist writer Aleksandr Blok, the artist Amedeo Modigliani, and fellow Acmeist Osip Mandelstam.
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In 1945 Isaiah Berlin, working in Russia for the British Foreign Office, met Anna Akhmatova almost by chance in what was then Leningrad. The brief time they spent together one long November evening was a transformng experience for both, and has become a cardinal moment in modern literary history.
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Some appreciation of the difficulties of those years is possible when one learns that, because Akhmatova was terrified that her work would be used against her son in prison, Requiem was for years never committed to paper. She composed in her head, and then confided sections of the poem to different friends for memorization, periodically calling on them to recite to make sure their memories were in order.
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That is why Anna studied History and especially the history of architecture and art during Pushkin's time. She studied his works as well; she desired to know them inside out. Her works on Pushkin are very well known in scientific world.
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