Natalya Gorbanevskaya died

The poet, translator, human rights activist Natalya Gorbanevskaya died in Paris on the night of November 29 at the age of 77.

Natalya Evgenievna Gorbanevskaya was born in 1936 in Moscow, graduated from Leningrad University with a degree in philologist, teacher of Russian language and literature of secondary school. She worked in Moscow as a librarian, a bibliographer, a technical and scientific translator. She was the initiator, author, editor and driver of the first issue of the Samizdat Bulletin of the “Chronicle of current events”.

A participant in the demonstration on August 25, 1968 against the introduction of Soviet troops into Czechoslovakia. Arrested on December 24, 1969. In April 1970, at the Institute of Judicial Psychiatry named after V.P. Serbian Natalia Gorbanevskaya was diagnosed with sluggish schizophrenia, after which it was aimed at compulsory treatment at a prison type psychiatric hospital, where it was contained until February 1972.

In 1971, Gorbanevskaya published an essay “Free Medical Assistance”, written in March 1968 and dedicated to the abuse of psychiatry in the USSR, in the book “Executed by Madness”.

December 17, 1975 emigrated. She lived in Paris, worked in the editorial office of the Magazine "Continent", was a freelance employee of Radio "Freedom", from the beginning of the 1980s and until 2003 she worked in the newspaper "Russian Thought". Since 1999, she was in the editorial office and editorial board of the Russian -speaking Warsaw magazine "New Poland", published in it as an author and as a translator.

The author of one and a half dozen poetry books; Translator from Polish, Czech, Slovak and French. Laureate of the International Literary Competition "Russian Prize" in 2010 in the nomination "Poetry".