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Anzhelina Polonskaya
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Anzhelina Polonskaya is the author of four poetry collections. Those available in English include To the Ashes (Zephyr Press, 2019) and Paul Klee’s Boat (Zephyr Press, 2013), which was shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award and the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. She has been awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship and a Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellowship for Writers at the Columbus State University in Georgia. In 2016 she won the Words on Borders festival’s Freedom Prize. Polonskaya has published translations in World Literature Today, Descant, AGNI, Kenyon Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Poetry Review UK, The American Poetry Review, International Poetry Review, Boulevard, The Iowa Review, The Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. Polonskaya’s work has also been translated into Dutch, Slovenian, Latvian, Spanish, and other languages. Born in Malakhovka, a small town near Moscow, she now lives in Dortmund, Germany. (updated 04/2021)

 

AGNI has published the following work:

Fiction
Fade-out
by Anzhelina Polonskaya
Translated from the Russian by Andrew Wachtel
AGNI 93 Print Only
Poetry
War in You and in Me
by Anzhelina Polonskaya
Translated from the Russian by Andrew Wachtel
AGNI 83 Print Only
Poetry
To the Ashes
by Anzhelina Polonskaya
Translated from the Russian by Andrew Wachtel
AGNI 86 Print Only
Fiction
The Fish
by Anzhelina Polonskaya
Translated from the Russian by Andrew Wachtel
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