Background
Elena Nikolayevna Fanailova was born on December 19, 1962, in the Elan-Kolenovsky settlement, Novokhopersk district, Russian Federation.
2008
Elena Fanailova
Voronezh State University
Elena Nikolayevna Fanailova was born on December 19, 1962, in the Elan-Kolenovsky settlement, Novokhopersk district, Russian Federation.
Elena Nikolayevna graduated from the Voronezh Medical Institute and earned a degree in journalism from Voronezh State University.
Elena Nikolayevna worked for six years as a doctor at Voronezh Regional Hospital. In 1995 she became a correspondent for Radio Svoboda, and has lived and worked in Moscow since the late nineties. Elena Nikolayevna has contributed verse and literary reviews to Znamya, the New Literary Review, Critical Mass, Mitin Journal, and other publications. She has also translated the verses of Serhiy Zhadan from Ukrainian.
Her poetry is characterized by its harsh outlook and precise language. During the early 2000s, it came to be representative of the new Russian literary preoccupation with the theme of citizenship and the problems of personal historical memory and historical self-image.