Born Sept. 24 (Oct. 7), 1915, in Odessa. Russian Soviet poet. Member of the CPSU from 1942.
Aliger studied at the Gorky Literary Institute from 1934 to 1937; she published her first work in 1933. The striving to open up the spiritual world of the contemporary Soviet individual is at the heart of her poems: the collections Year of Birth (1938), Stones and Grasses (1940), Memories of the Brave (1942), Lyrics (1943), First Signs (1948), The Lenin Hills (1953), A Few Paces (1962), and Poems (1967), and others; the poems “Zoia” (1942; State Prize of the USSR, 1943), which is devoted to the partisan Zoia Kosmodem’ianskaia; “Your Victory” (1945); the plays Tale of Truth (1945) and First Thunder (1947), and others. She has translated Soviet (Ukrainian, Azerbaijani, and Uzbek) and foreign poets, and she has been awarded two orders.