Nika Turbina

Nika Georgievna Turbina (Russian: Ника Гeopгиeвна Туpбина; 17 December 1974, Yalta – 11 May 2002, Moscow) was a Soviet poet.

Biography

Career

She started writing poetry at the age of 6 and published her first book in 1984, at the age of 10. A recording of her recitations sold over 30,000 copies in the then Soviet Union.[1]

Turbina wrote her first complete poem at age of 4. Two years later, she was discovered by writer Yulian Semyonov who spent part of the year in her hometown of Yalta. Turbina's talent set her apart from her classmates in school, where she was learning ahead of her grade. She studied the piano and her favorite subject was mathematics, which she saw as akin to verses.[2]

At the age of 10, Turbina published her first book, First Draft, with an introduction by Yevgeny Yevtushenko in 1984. Translations of her First Draft have been published in France, Italy and Britain.

Death

She died on 11 May 2002 in Moscow, Soviet Union at the age of 27 after she fell from her 5th floor window.[3]

Books

  • Nika Turbina, Quaderno di appunti, translated by Evelina Pascucci, 1984.
  • Nika Turbina, First Draft, with a foreword by Evgenij Aleksandrovič Evtušenko, 1988. ISBN 978-0714528649
  • Nika Turbina, Stupenʹki vverkh, stupenʹki vniz, 1991. ISBN 978-5852100023
  • Nika Turbina, Sono pesi queste mie poesie, 2008, translated and seen through the press by Federico Federici. ISBN 978-8862260176
  • Federico Federici, Nika Turbina, 2018. ISBN 978-0244998455

References

  1. ↑ "Russian Poetry Finds a Prodigy in 12-Year-Old Nika Turbina". People magazine. 1987-04-06. Retrieved 2010-08-15.
  2. ↑ Комсомольская Правда. Бабушка Ники Турбиной: «По ночам она шептала стихи. И хотела быть такой, как все…»
  3. ↑ Полина Молоткова, Жизнь и смерть вундеркинда


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