Vera Pavlova was born in Moscow in 1963. Graduated as a music historian from the Alfred Schnittke College of Music and the Gnessin Academy of Music. Has worked as a guide at the Chaliapin House Museum, produced music essays, for about ten years sang in a church chorus and for twelve years directed the Stars of the Zodiac children’s literature study.
At the age of twenty, following the birth of her first daughter, she began to write verse. Pavlova’s first anthology of verse was published in Yunost magazine. The publication of seventy-two of the poet’s works brought her fame and gave birth to the myth that Vera Pavlova was a literary mystification.
Her works have been printed in magazines in Russia, Europe and America. In Russia she has printed eighteen books. Recipient of the Apollon Grigoryev Award, the Anthology award, the Moscow Account award the Oktyabr magazine prize.
Pavlova’s verse has been translated into twenty-two languages. She has appeared at international poetry festivals in Great Britain, Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, The Netherlands, the USA, Greece, Switzerland, Armenia, Mexico and Georgia.
Has written the libretti of the operas Einstein and Margarita and Planet P by IraidaYusupova, Prologue to Dido and Aeneas by Michael Nyman, A Christmas Opera by Anton Degtyarenko, The Last Musician by Efrem Podgaits, the cantatas Chain Breath by Pyotr Apollonov, The Shepherds and the Angels and Willows’ Flowering by Iraida Yusupova and Three Saviour’s Feasts by Vladimir Genin. As a narrator she has recorded seven discs of poetry from the Silver Age.
Productions featuring verse by Pavlova have been staged in Skopin, Perm, Moscow, St Petersburg and Toronto. Films about and featuring her have been produced in Russia, France, Germany and the USA.
Currently lives in Moscow and New York.
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