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Vera Mikhaylovna Inber (Russian: Вера Михайловна Инбер), born Shpenzer (10 July 1890, Odessa – 11 November 1972, Moscow), was a Russian and Soviet poet and writer.[1][2]

Vera Inber
Native name	Вера Михайловна Инбер
Born	Vera Moiseyevna Shpenzer (1890-07-10)10 July 1890 Odessa, Russian Empire
Died	11 November 1972(1972-11-11) (aged 82) Moscow, Soviet Union
Notable works	Pulkovo Meridian
Notable awards	State Stalin Prize (1946)
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Biography

Her father Moshe owned a scientific publishing house "Matematika" ("Mathematics"). Moshe was cousin to the future socialist revolutionary Leon Trotsky. The nine-year-old Lev (Trotsky) lived with Moshe and his wife Fanni in their Odessa apartment when Vera was a baby.[3]

Inber briefly attended a History and Philology department in Odessa. Her first poems were published in 1910 in local newspapers. In 1910–1914, she lived in Paris and Switzerland; then she moved to Moscow. During the 1920s, Inber worked as a journalist, writing prose, articles, and essays, and traveling across the country and abroad.

During World War II, she lived in besieged Leningrad where her husband worked as the director at a medical institute. According to her New York Times obituary, she "wrote for the newspaper Leningradskaya Pravda and broadcast over Leningrad radio in efforts to keep up the morale and spirit of the hard‐pressed population."[4] Much of her poetry and prose during those times is dedicated to the life and resistance of Soviet citizens.

Inber translated into Russian such foreign poets as Paul Éluard and Sándor Petőfi, as well as Ukrainian poets Taras Shevchenko and Maksym Rylsky. She dabbled in cabbala, although it had been forbidden by her elders.

Awards

In 1946, she received State Stalin Prize for her siege-time poem Pulkovo Meridian. She was also awarded several medals.

English translations

• Maya, from Such a Simple Thing and Other Stories, FLPH, Moscow, 1959. from Archive.org
• The Death of Luna, from Soviet Short Stories: A Penguin Parallel Text, Penguin, 1963.
• Leningrad Diary, Hutchinson, UK, 1971.
• Lalla's Interests, from Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida, Penguin Classics, 2005.

References

На других языках

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- [en] Vera Inber

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[fr] Véra Inber

Vera Mikhaïlovna Inber (en russe : Вера Михайловна Инбер), née Spenzer le 10 juillet 1890 à Odessa et décédée le 11 novembre 1972 à Moscou, est une écrivaine, poétesse, romancière et mémorialiste témoin du siège de Leningrad[1],[2].

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[ru] Инбер, Вера Михайловна

Ве́ра Миха́йловна И́нбер (урождённая Шпенцер; 28 июня [10 июля] 1890, Одесса, Херсонская губерния[3] — 11 ноября 1972[1][2], Москва) — русская поэтесса и прозаик, переводчик, журналист. Лауреат Сталинской премии второй степени (1946).

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