Portrait of Irina Ratushinskaya

Irina Ratushinskaya

Irina Ratushinskaya is a Russian poet born in 1954. Charged with “the dissemination of slanderous documentation in poetic form,” she was forced to serve four years in a Soviet labor camp. Ratushinskaya continued to produce poetry during this time. After her release, she moved to the United States, where she was honored with the Religious Freedom Award. (updated 7/2010)

AGNI has published the following work:

Senya the Dream-Maker

Fiction by Irina Ratushinskaya Translated from the Russian by Diane Nemec Ignashev

My Lord

Poetry by Irina Ratushinskaya Translated from the Russian by Ilya Nykin and Pamela White Hadas

Leningrad Triptych

Poetry by Irina Ratushinskaya Translated from the Russian by Ilya Nykin and Pamela White Hadas
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