Inna Lisnyanskaya
Inna Lisnyanskaya | |
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Lisnyanskaya (Right) with her husband, Semyon Lipkin (left), 2000 | |
| Native name | Инна Лисянская |
| Born | 1928 Baku, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic |
| Died | 2014 (aged 85–86) Haifa, Israel |
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| Language | Russian |
| Genre | Poetry, essays |
| Notable works | Rains and Mirrors On the Verge of Sleep Poems (in Russian language) Without You |
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Inna Lisnyanskaya or Inna Lisnianskaya (Russian: Инна Лиснянская; 1928 – 2014) was a Jewish-Russian poet from USSR, later Russia. Her most creative period of writing occurred in the village for poets and writers of Peredelkino near Moscow, where she lived with her husband and co-worker, Semyon Lipkin. Her daughter Elena Makarova is also a well-known writer. She was a recipient of the Solzhenitsyn Prize and Russia's Poet Prize.