Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova is a well-known Russian poet and the pen name of Anna Andreyevna Gorenko. She was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in 1965 and her work ranges from lyric poems to structured cycles. ‘Requiem’ is one of the best examples of her work.

He loved three things, alive:

I Taught Myself to Live Simply

Lot’s Wife by Anna Akhmatova, Translated

You should appear less often in my dreams