Alexandra Gennadievna Petrova is a Russian poet and writer. She graduated in the Faculty of Philology from the University of Tartu. She lived in JerusalemIsrael from 1993 - 1998 and has lived in Rome since 1998. She was a finalist for the Andrei Bely Prizein 1999 and in 2008.. Laureate of Andrei Bely Prize in 2016 for her novel Appendix. Her poetry and prose has been translated into Italian, English, Chinese, Portuguese, German, Slovak and Hebrew. In 2011, she participated in the International Writing Program Fall Residency at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA.
Biography
Alexandra Petrova was born in Saint Petersburg and she studied at the University of Tartu. She conducts research on Leonid Dobycin, a Russian narrator from the first half of the twentieth century*. In 1990 she begins to publish her poems, first in magazines of clandestine origin of "samizdat" as "Mitin Zhurnal", then also in Russian magazines in exile, as "Kontinent" founded in Paris. In 1994 she published her first book of poetry Linia Otryva with Mitin Zhurnal - Severo-Zapad the publishing house. In Italy, where she arrived in 1998, she took part in several Italian cultural events and was invited to numerous events abroad. In 2000 her collection of poetry and prose Vid na zhitelstvo is a finalist for the Andrei Bely Prize and is therefore published by one of the most important Russian publishers, NLO of Moscow. Her poetry, translations and prose were published in the main Russian literary magazines: "Znamia", "Zvezda", "Zerkalo", she collaborates with the Russian magazine "Inostrannaia literatura", "Translit", "Gefter", with the magazine "", which in the issue of December 2002 dedicated her the cover; with and other international magazines and anthologies: The crossing Centuries: , ; Modern Poetry in Translation ; "Svesta", "Povelia", "Circumference", 2007, n.6, "Zoland Poetry" 2008, No. 2, "Jacket", 2008; "A mirror of contemporary Russian Literature" etc. In 2003 she published The philosophical operetta in ten scenes The Shepherds of Dolly in the anthology Simbol My and in Italian as a book with the Onyx editions. In 2005 she published her poetry collectionAltri Fuochi with testo a fronte, with the introduction by Stephanie Sandler, Crocetti Editore. In 2008 her third book of poetry Tolko derevia published again by NLO of Moscow and again it became a finalist of the Andrei Bely prize. In 2009 the collection of poetry in Serbian languageСАМО ДРВЕЋЕ was published in the translations of Miriana Petrovich and became the winner of the first prize of the jury of the Tre'ci Trg Festival of 2008 in Belgrade. She translated from Italian to Russian some poets and in 2012 she translated into Russian the book Grammatica della moltitudine Per una analisi delle forme di vita contemporanea written by Paolo Virno, for Ad Marginem publisher house. In 2016 with the publishing house NLO came out her first novel Appendix which received the Andrei Bely Prize in the same year and was a finalist of the Nos Prize of the 2017. She appeared also in the long lists of the Bolshaja Kniga Prize and the Alexandr Piatigorskij Prize. The magazine NLO has dedicated to this novel its special column "the book as an event". Also a transmission on The Radio Liberty and numerous articles appeared on various newspapers and magazines were dedicated to this novel. In 2009 she worked as a curator of "The Italian cinema of the 21st century" for the festival in Krasnoyarsk, thanks to the In 2011 she was a resident of the International Writers Program and a resident of the Island Institute in Sitka, Alaska. In 2011 she won the Special Prize of the Torino Film Festival as the part of the Nationalliterary prize " La Lingua Madre" for her short story "", written in Italian.
