Alla Gorbunova

Alla Gorbunova is a poet and prose writer whose work focuses on delicate, elusive questions about the basis of speech and the nature of reality. She was born in Leningrad and has published five collections of poems and three books of prose. Her poetry and prose have been translated into many languages, including a poetry collection in Italian and two books of prose in Italian and Bulgarian. She is the recipient of the Debut Literary Award, the Andrei Bely Prize, and the NOS Prize.