Anastasiya Afanasyeva Ukrainian poet Date of Birth: 31.01.1982 Country: Ukraine

1. Biography of Anastasia Afanasyeva
2. Works and Publications
3. Awards and Recognition
4. Writing Style and Critique

Biography of Anastasia Afanasyeva

Anastasia Afanasyeva is a Ukrainian poet and translator who writes in Russian. She graduated from Kharkiv State Medical University and currently works as a forensic psychiatric expert. She resides in Kharkiv.

Works and Publications

Afanasyeva's poems, prose, and articles on contemporary poetry have been published in various journals such as "Novy Mir," "Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie," "Soyuz Pisateley," "Ural," "Zinziver," almanacs "Vavilon," and anthologies "Bratskaya kolybel," "Osvobozhdenny Ulyss," among others. She is the author of poetic and prose collections including "Bednye belye lyudi" (2005), "Golosa govoriat" (2007), "Belye steny" (2010), and "Soldat belyi, soldat chernyi" (Kharkiv, 2010).

Awards and Recognition

Afanasyeva was shortlisted for the "Debut" Prize in 2003 and has received numerous awards, including the "REC" journal prize in 2005, the Russian Prize in 2006, the "Literaturrentgen" prize in 2007, among others.

Writing Style and Critique

According to poet and essayist Natalia Chernykh, Afanasyeva's poetic worldview can be described as mosaic-like, with each mini-fragment (metaphor or metonymic transfer) having clear boundaries. However, these boundaries are not closed but rather blurred at the semantic links. This is reflected in the metric-rhythmic pulsation of her tropes, which can be both free verse and metrically organized. Afanasyeva is a poet who possesses a distinctive and recognizable plasticity of words.

Anastasia Afanasyeva, along with Kira Malinina and the Theater Laboratory "Teatrra," continues to contribute to the literary scene with her unique poetic voice.