About Inna Kabysh

Inna Kabysh (b. 1963) is the author of six books: Lichnye trudnosti (1994), Detskiy mir (1996), Mesto vstrechi (2000), Detstvo, otrochestvo, detstvo (2003), Nevesta bez mesta (2008), and Mama myla ramu (2013). In 1996 Kabysh was awarded the Pushkin Prize of the Alfred Toepfer Fund (Hamburg, Germany). She is also the winner of the Anton Delwig Prize (2005) and the Anna Akhmatova Prize (2016). With the exception of several short poems published in anthologies of contemporary Russian writing, almost none of Kabysh’s work has been translated into English.