Zinaida Aleksandrovna Mirkina

Zinaida Alexandrovna Mirkina (Russian: ; 10 January 1926 – 21 September 2018) was a Russian essayist, translator and philosopher. She was an awardee of the Bjørnson Prize of the Norwegian Academy of Literature and Freedom of Expression for "extensive contribution to strengthening the freedom of expression in Russia."

Life Zinaida Mirkina was born on 10 January 1926 in Moscow.

Mirkina was married to the philosopher Grigory Pomerants. She died in Moscow on 21 September 2018.

Career From the middle of the 1950s, Mirkina began her career as a translator. She translated Sufi poetry (which was first published in 1975 in the volume Arab poetry of the middle ages in the series Library of World Literature), as well as works by Rabindranath Tagore and Rainer Maria Rilke (in particular, his Sonnets to Orpheus). Her poetry expanded beyond Christian ethics to a universal sentiment of faith which people could absorb regardless of their religion.

Selected works Essays and monographs

Translations

Poetry