Bella Akhmadulina (1937–2010)

Izabella Akhatovna Akhmadulina was born in Moscow on April 10, 1937. She graduated from the Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow. She started publishing her own work in the mid-1950s. Her first volume of poetry, The String, was published in 1962. Her other works include The Chill (1968), Music show more Lessons (1969), The Garden (1987), Casket and Key (1994), and One Day in December (1996). She was involved in the unofficial collection Metropol' (1979). She received the U.S.S.R. State Prize in 1989 and the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 2004. She died due to a heart attack on November 29, 2010 at the age of 73. (Bowker Author Biography) show less