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Brief annotated listing of criticism on akhmatovas works. Anna akhmatova has 195 books on goodreads with 30944 ratings. Akhmatova was born anna andreevna gorenko on june 11, 1889, near odessa, on the coast of the black sea. Thomas penguin books 1985 twenty poems of anna akhmatova trans jane kenyon. The complete poems of anna akhmatova book by anna akhmatova. Akhmatova began writing verse at age 11 and at 21 joined a group of st. Her father was a retired maritime engineer who moved his family to tsarskoye selo near st. She also translated italian, french, armenian, and korean poetry.
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