Olga Martynova

Olga Martynova, born in 1962 in Siberia and raised in Leningrad, studied Russian language and literature. In the 1980s, she co-founded the Leningrad poetry group Kamera Chranenia. She moved to Germany in 1991. As a writer, essayist and translator, she produced literary texts in Russian and German from 1999 onward, later writing exclusively in German. Her works include the novel Even Parrots Survive Us, the novel The Angel Herd, the essay collection On the Stupidity of the Hour and the poetry collection Search for the Name of the Wind. Among her distinctions are the Adelbert von Chamisso Förderpreis, the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (2012), the Roswitha von Gandersheim Prize and the Berlin Literature Prize (2015).