Gorbunova, Alla Glebovna

She graduated with honors from the Faculty of Philosophy of St. Petersburg University .

She made her debut as a poet in 2003 in the collection of poets of St. Petersburg University “Therefore”, later poems and prose were published in the magazines “ Day and Night ”, “ Banner ”, “Khreshchatyk”, “ New Literary Review ”, “ Air ”, etc. The publication in the New World magazine was preceded by parting words of Yuri Kublanovsky ^[1] , and in the Internet magazine TextOnly by Valery Shubinsky ^[2] . As a critic and reviewer, he was published in the magazines Critical Mass, New World , and New Literary Review .

He is the author of poetry books “First Love, Mother of Hell” (2008), “Well Wine” (2010), “Alpine Window” (2012), “While the Alphabet Burns Out” (2016), “La rosa dell'Angola” (2016) and books of prose “Things and gorges” (2017) and “Orders for sweeping” (2017). Winner of the Debut Prize (2005). With the second collection of poems “Well Wine” (2010), in 2011 she entered the short list of the Andrei Bely Prize ^[3] . Short list of the Moscow Observer Prize (2016, 2017), awarded for reports on literary evenings. The collection of poems “While the ABC is dying” was included in the short list of the award “Difference” (2017). The prose book “Things and Gorges” was included in the short list of the Andrei Bely Prize (2018) and the NOS Prize (2018).

Poems were translated into English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Serbian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Latvian and Bulgarian. Prose - in English, Italian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Romanian and Czech. Participated in Russian and international poetry and prose festivals (Paris Book Salon, Blood of Poet in Latvia, Kiev Laurels in Ukraine, Runokuu in Finland, Kikinda Short Story Festival in Serbia, participated in poetry readings in New York and Chicago).

Since 2014 lives in Moscow.

Poet, prose writer and critic Anahit Grigoryan:

... the whole “Alpine window” and - wider - all the poet’s work turns out to be a single word, a picture, contrary to the rules of painting, executed with watercolors on a thick canvas. Examining a transparent, openwork pattern, one does not immediately notice behind it the tight interweaving of fibers, tear-resistant fabric - thus, observing a dream, one does not distinguish the dark relict stream that has been uprooted, originating somewhere in the preconscious past of mankind, continuously generating and immediately absorbing images, only partially comprehensible ^[4] .

Poet and critic Denis Larionov :

Through this shocking moment <showing the conventionality of the boundary between the world of the living and the world of the dead> we can also identify the place of the subject in Gorbunova’s poetry, located on the border of these worlds. Sometimes the subject appears to be on the other side — and then the poet turns to polymetric constructions (which can be dialogical with respect to the texts of Elena Schwartz), describing idyllic, dream-free toposs; sometimes according to this, and then we see the unfolding of a particular metaphor that is almost always associated with its nihilistic overturning (here it is more appropriate to recall the Gnostic line in modern poetry, from Alexander Mironov to Shish Bryansky) ^[5] .

Philosopher and philologist Alexander Markov:

Before us is the same effect that natural-philosophical poetry gave, from Arat's “Heavenly Phenomena” to symbolism, but only here such an account of what is happening is not based on mythology, but rather on the experience of “being” if this word united in Russian and a philosophical category, and existence, and life. It cannot be said that this is only an experience that has come true, because Gorbunova speaks no less of an unfulfilled event. But this is unfulfilled - not the “unfulfilled” of everyday experiences, not broken dreams, but the unfulfilled physics or chemistry: another phenomenon that has not yet received a formula or experimental verification ^[6] .

Poet Vasily Borodin :

In these verses, it is very difficult to draw a line between the subject and his experience; the subject has no clear boundaries separating it from the world, and those conditional boundaries that tend to keep it from completely dissolving are extremely mobile. It seems that the subject of these verses admits - in verses, often even at the physical level - some ultimate and even deforming experience, as it were, taking its blow ... Gorbunova is interested in the possibility of revelation and a miracle, and the boundaries of the subjectivity in which they are possible , or rather, the constant penetration of these boundaries ^[7] .

• Poems in St. Petersburg. 21st Century / Compiled by Lyudmila Zubova , Vyacheslav Kuritsyn . - SPb. : Platform, 2005 .-- 480 p. - 1000 copies. - ISBN 5-92878-017-0 .
• Alla Gorbunova. First Love, Hell's Mother: First Book of Poems . - M .: ARGO-RISK ; Book Review, 2008 .-- 96 p. - 500 copies. - ISBN 5-86856-161-9 .
• Alla Gorbunova. Well wine . - M .: Russian Gulliver / Center for Contemporary Literature, 2010. - 80 p. - 300 copies. - ISBN 978-5-91627-039-6 .
• Alla Gorbunova. Alpine window. - SPb. : Publisher K.Tublin, 2012 .-- 216 p. - 1000 copies. - ISBN ISBN 978-5-8370-0638-8 , 978-5-904744-08-3.
• Alla Gorbunova . While the alphabet dies: Poems / Alla Gorbunova; foreword V. Borodin. - M.: New Literary Review, 2016. - 144 p. ISBN 978-5-4448-0537-4 .
• Alla Gorbunova . La rosa dell'Angola. Traduzione e cura di Paolo Galvagni. KĒLEN N.1 Collana internazionale diretta da Antonio Bux. - Milano: Marco Saya Edizioni, 2016 .-- ISBN 978-88-98243-37-2 .
• Alla Gorbunova. Things and ravines. - SPb .: Limbus Press, 2017 .-- 240 p. - 700 copies. - ISBN 978-5-8370-0830-6 .
• Alla Gorbunova. Orders for swipe. - Sofia: Scalino, 2017. Translation and co-creation: Iglika Dionisieva. - ISBN 978-619-7043-53-2 .

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