Background
She grew up in Leningrad and currently lives with her husband, the Russian poet, novelist and playwright Oleg Yuriev, and their son Daniel in Frankfurt where she works as a poet and literary critic.
She grew up in Leningrad and currently lives with her husband, the Russian poet, novelist and playwright Oleg Yuriev, and their son Daniel in Frankfurt where she works as a poet and literary critic.
She writes poems in Russian, and prose and essays in German. Martynova was awarded the Hubert Burda Preis für junge Lyrik for poets from Eastern, Southern and Central Europe in 2000. 2000 Hubert-Burda-Preis für junge Lyrik (Germany).
2000 Hubert-Burda-Preis für junge Lyrik (Germany) 2005 Grant of the Baltic Center for Translators and Authors in Visby (Sweden) 2007 Grant of the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben, Edenkoben, (Germany) 2009 Long list of the "Russian Prize" (Russia), for O Vvedenskom. O Chvirike i Chvirke / Issledovaniya v stikhakh 2010 Long list of the German Book Prize (Germany), for Sogar Papageien überleben uns 2010 Short list of the aspekte-Literaturpreis (for Sogar Papageien überleben uns) (Germany) 2010 Babochka Aronzona (Aronzon"s Butterfly), the annual prize of the literary site "Novaya kamera khranenia" for the poem of the year (Russia) 2011 Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, the promotional prize (Germany) 2011 Roswitha Prize (Germany) 2011 Grant of the City of Frankfurt am Main, (Germany) 2012 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (Klagenfurt, Austria) 2015 Berliner Literaturpreis (Germany).
