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