Anna Anichkova
Born1868/1869
Caucasus
Died1935
NationalityRussian
Occupation(s)Writer and translator

Anna Mitrofanovna Anichkova (1868/1869 – 1935) was a Russian writer and translator who published under the pseudonym Ivan Strannik. She wrote fiction in both French and Russian.[1]

Life

Anna Mitrofanovna Avinova was born in the Caucasus. Some sources give 1868 as her year of birth,[2] and others 1869.[1][3] She married the literary critic Evgeny Anichkov and moved to Paris in the late 1890s, establishing a literary salon there which attracted writers like Anatole France and Vlacheslav Ivanov. She wrote novels in French, and contributed to Revue de Paris, Revue Bleu and Figaro.[4]

In 1909 the couple returned to Russia, and she began writing short fiction for the 'thick periodicals' there. After the Russian Revolution in 1917 she concentrated on translation rather than fiction.[4]

Works

Novels

  • ИНГИЛЬДА: ИСТОРИЧЕСКИЙ РОМАН ТРИНАДЦАТАГО СТОЛ'ЬТШ [Ringil'da: A historical novel of the thirteenth century] (in Russian). 1900.
  • L'appel de l'eau [The Call of Water] (in French). Paris: Société du Mercure de France. 1902.
  • La statue ensevelie [The Buried Statue] (in French). Paris: Calmann-Lévy. 1902.
  • L'ombre de la maison [The Shadow of the House] (in French). Paris: Calmann-Lévy. 1904.
  • Les nuages [The Clouds] (in French). Paris: Calmann-Lévy. 1905.

Others

  • (trans.) Maxim Gorky. Les Vagabonds. Paris: Mercure de France.
  • (trans.) Maxim Gorky (1902). Twenty-six and one: and other stories from the Vagabond series. New York: J.F. Taylor & Co.
  • La pensée russe contemporaine [Contemporary Russian Thought] (in French). Paris: A. Colin. 1903.
  • Les mages sans étoile: ames russes [Magi without a star: Russian souls] (in French). Paris: Calmann-Lévy. 1906.

References

  1. 1 2 B. L. Bessonov (ed.). "'Strannik, Ivan'". Dictionary of Russian Women Writers. pp. 625–627.
  2. ↑ Axel Frey, ed. (2005). Biographischer Index Rußlands und der Sowjetunion. Munich: K. G. Saur. ISBN 9783110933369.
  3. ↑ Mary Zirin; Irina Livezeanu; Christine D. Worobec; June Pachuta Farris, eds. (2007). Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Routledge. p. 1523.
  4. 1 2 "Aníchkova, Anna (1868–1935)". Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
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