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Unna Petrovna Moric
Юнна Мориц
Birth at
2 June 1937
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Yuna Petrovna (Pinhusovna) Moritz was born in Kiev on June 2, 1937 in the family of an engineer and a teacher. Her father was arrested the year the girl was born. After his release, his health began to deteriorate sharply (the torture suffered). He was blind, and Yunna later said that her father’s blindness had a profound effect on her own inner vision. During the war, the whole family left for Chelyabinsk, and in 1945 Yunna returned to her homeland. After graduation, she entered the Kiev University
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Yuna Petrovna (Pinhusovna) Moritz was born in Kiev on June 2, 1937 in the family of an engineer and a teacher. Her father was arrested the year the girl was born. After his release, his health began to deteriorate sharply (the torture suffered). He was blind, and Yunna later said that her father’s blindness had a profound effect on her own inner vision. During the war, the whole family left for Chelyabinsk, and in 1945 Yunna returned to her homeland.
After graduation, she entered the Kiev University at the Faculty of Philology. During this period, Yunna began to appear her first publications in the press. In 1955, Moritz entered the Literary Institute at the Poetry Department in Moscow. Two years later, she was expelled from the institute together with B.Akhmadulina and G.Aigi for “the development of unhealthy moods in creativity”. Yunna recovered from the institute and graduated in 1961.
Junna’s first book “Cape Desire” was published in 1961, it hardly passed into print, and subsequent poems of the poetess were severely criticized. Moritz was blacklisted and was not published until 1970. During this period, Yunna wrote mainly for children (to circumvent strict qualifications), many of her poems were set to music and filmed in animation. After 1985, Moritz was able to travel abroad.
After 1970, censorship waned, and Yunna entered a brighter period in creativity. Between 1970 and 1980, she published 8 books. Since 1980, it has ceased to be published. Moritz recalls this period: “In ten years I have not published under the regime I will not tell whom.” And only since 2000, poems and books of Yunna began to be published again. Her most popular works are “Tumber Bumber”, “Essays”, “Stories about the miraculous”, “Face”, “The beautiful is not in vain”, “Stories from the book Suitcase” and many others.
Junna Moritz was awarded several prizes (Triumph, Golden Rose, Sakharov Prize, Book of the Year, Delvig Prize, Russian Government Prize). Her poems have been translated into many languages. Her books can be found in China, Japan, and all European countries.