Voznesenskaya, Julia (1940–)
Voznesenskaya, Julia (1940–)
Russian poet and short-story writer. Name variations: Iulia Nikolaevna Voznesénskaia or Voznesenskaya. Born 1940 in USSR.
Active in the Leningrad Second Culture movement; her dissident views kept her writings out of the official press; was sent several times to prison and labor camps; after involvement with feminist magazine Women and Russia, received threats against her sons; immigrated with them to West Germany (1980); works, which focus on ills of Soviet regime, include The Women's Decameron (1986) and The Star Chernobyl (1987).
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