Svetlana Aksenova-Steingrud Poet, translator, journalist. Date of Birth: 08.11.1945 Country: Israel

Biography of Svetlana Aksyonova-Shteingrud

Svetlana Aksyonova-Shteingrud is a poet, translator, and journalist. She graduated from Kazakh State University, where she studied at the Faculty of Philology. She began her career working at the youth republican newspaper "Leninskaya Smena" as a correspondent and head of the literature and art department. In the following years, she worked as an assistant to the chief director for literary affairs at the Alma-Ata Youth Theater. Svetlana was awarded the "Young Writers of Kazakhstan" prize in 1970.

In January 1980, she moved to Moscow and started working at the journal "Literaturnoe Obozrenie" (Literary Review). She became a member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR in 1971, the Union of Writers of the USSR in 1980, and the Board of the All-Union Public Organization of Writers "April." She was also a member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR. Svetlana's contribution to the famous "Ostashvili Trial," also known as "April vs. Memory," can be found in the book "April vs. Memory" (Moscow, Publisher "Pik," 1993).

On May 29, 1991, Svetlana repatriated to Israel. She worked as a journalist for the Russian-language newspaper "Novosti Nedeli" and served as the head of a popular university for repatriates under the Absorption Department in Haifa. From 1998 to 2008, she worked as a coordinator of cultural programs for the organization "Joint" in various countries of the CIS, including Minsk, St. Petersburg, and Moscow. From 2012 to 2013, she worked as a coordinator of communications.

Svetlana lived in Moscow from 1979 until her repatriation to Israel in 1991. She became a member of the Board of the Union of Russian-speaking Writers of Israel. Her poems have been translated into Kazakh, Belarusian, German, and Hebrew. Her works, including poetry, essays, articles, reviews, and sketches, have been published in international and Russian newspapers, magazines, and anthologies such as "Yunost," "Literaturnoe Obozrenie," "Literaturnaya Gazeta," "Oktyabr," "Taruskiye Stranitsy," "Neva," "Dialog," "Baltiyskiye Sezony," "Aleph," and "Svet Dvuediny" (Russia); "Prostor" (Kazakhstan); "Mishpoha" (Belarus); "Grani" (France); "Albion" (UK); "Forverts" (USA); "Evrei v Kulture Russkogo Zarubezhya," "Vesti," "Novosti Nedeli," "Slovo Pisatelya," "120 Poetov Russkoyazychnogo Izrailya" (Israel). Her works have also appeared in poetry festivals, anthologies of Russian and Israeli writers, numerous collective collections, and the Russian online journal "Prolog."

Svetlana's translations from Polish have been published in the collection of Julian Tuwim's works titled "Fokus-Pokus ili Prosba o Pustyni" (Moscow, Publisher "Ripol Klassik," 2008), as well as in the anthology "Sovremennaya Dramaturgiya" (No.3, Moscow, 2008) and the play "Children of Shadows" by Ben-Zion Tomer (Tel Aviv, Publisher "Rinat," 1994).

She was awarded the David Samoylov Prize by the Union of Russian-speaking Writers of Israel in 2009 for her book of poems "Motylkovoe Novoselie" (Publisher "Zebra E," Moscow, 2009). In 2011, she was named "Person of the Year" in the category of "Literature" in Ashdod. Svetlana has a younger daughter named Keren Klimovski, who is also a poet and translator.