Drunina, Iuliia
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Drunina, Iuliia Vladimirovna
Born May 10, 1924, in Moscow. Soviet Russian poet.
Drunina graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literary Institute in 1952. During the Great Patriotic War (1941-45) she served at the front as a volunteer medical battalion officer. Her first collection of poems, In a Soldier’s Overcoat, was published in 1948. Wartime reminiscences, including the theme of the “soldier with blond braids”—the girl who “went from school to the damp trenches”—are central to her lyrical, pastoral, and philosophical poems. Drunina has been awarded two orders and various medals.
WORKS
Trevoga: Izbrannye stikhi, 1942-62. Moscow, 1963.Izbrannaia lirika. Moscow, 1968.
V dvukh izmereniiakh: Stikhi. Moscow, 1970.
REFERENCE
Narovchatov, S. “I devushka nasha v pokhodnoi shineli …” In his collection Poeziia v dvizhenii. Moscow, 1966.The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.