Ratushinskaya, Irina (1954–)
Ratushinskaya, Irina (1954–)
Russian poet and memoirist. Name variations: Irina Borisovna Ratushínskaia. Born 1954 in USSR; m. Igor Gerashchenko.
Participated in Soviet human-rights movement in Kiev and was arrested (1982); at 28, sentenced to 7 years' hard labor and 5 years internal exile (1983); was detained for 3 years in a labor camp, though her poems were smuggled out and published as No, I'm Not Afraid (1986), which led to an international outcry over her case; released, emigrated with husband (1986); works in translation include A Tale of Three Heads (1986), Beyond the Limit (1987), and prison memoir, Grey is the Color of Hope (1988).
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BORN: 1889, Bol'shoi Fontan, Russia
DIED: 1966, Domodedovo, Russia
NATIONALITY: Russian
GENRE: Poetry, prose, translation
MAJOR WORKS… Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko , Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), the most popular of contemporary Soviet poets, was the leading literary spokesman for the generation o…
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