Cover news reporter Yan Wenwen
The curtain of the 5th Chengdu International Poetry Week was officially opened, which was hosted by Chengdu Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature, Chengdu Radio and Television Station, Chengdu Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, Sichuan Shuijingfang Co., Ltd., and organized by Chengdu Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature "Caotang" Poetry Publishing House and Chengdu Radio and Television Station News Comprehensive Channel (Chengdu Television Development Co., Ltd.).
In addition to many domestic poets, the event also included a number of international poets currently living in China participating offline, as well as many online participation. Anna from Russia is one of the poets who came to Chengdu, and as a poet who has lived in China for 20 years, Anna was interviewed by reporters and shared her understanding of poetry.
Anna is actually an artist as well, and she holds a master's degree in violin. During his studies, he participated in solo tours of chamber orchestras in Kamchatka, Russia, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Germany, and Italy, and has been employed by Hunan Polytechnic Conservatory since 2002. In 2006, he was awarded the "Baling Friendship Award" by yueyang Municipal People's Government. In 2010, he won the "Xiaoxiang Friendship Award" issued by the Hunan Provincial Government. In 2012, he participated in the second prize of the "Crystal Lotus Instrumental Music Competition" in Beijing. Solo performances in China: Guangzhou Opera House, Minnan Grand Theatre, Tian Han Grand Theatre, and other theaters. In 2012, he began writing poetry in China. Finalist of the 2018 Moscow Cultural Heritage Prize, Pushkin Medal of the Russian Writers Union 2018. The first book was published in 2019 and translated two poems dedicated to China into Chinese.
"I've been living in China for 20 years, when I was teaching at a school in Russia and had just gotten married. The school has an exchange program with Chinese schools, and it takes a few semesters to live in China. The principal told me and my husband that you had just gotten married and had no children, so why not go out and have a look? So we came, first in Jilin for a year, and then in Hunan, where we lived for 19 years. "During my time in China, we went to a lot of places, and I like China a lot. ”
Talking about how she went from being a musician to a poet, Anna said that the two art forms actually have something in common: "The path is actually relatively simple, for many of us, playing an instrument or writing something, in fact, there is something in common, it is a very similar activity. It's hard for me to explain how I write poetry, but it just comes out of nowhere. In my opinion, writing poetry is like a good habit,"
The theme of this poetry week is "Li Bai and Du Fu in World Time", and Anna said that she was exposed to the poetry of these two great poets when she was very young: "I knew Li Bai and Du Fu when I was very young. When I started reading, I saw that my parents' bookshelf had a lot of poetry collections, whether they were Eastern or Western, and The poetry collections of Li Bai and Du Fu were also on the shelves in my house. Their poetry should be counted as the most basic book in world literature that must be read. For me, it was very meaningful to come to Chengdu to participate in this poetry week and to be exposed to more about the two great poets. I personally know a little more about Li Bai's poetry, of course, Du Fu I have also read. ”
This time, Anna brought her son to Chengdu, and the 13-year-old boy who was reading the second year of junior high school said: "In fact, I also like poetry, but I prefer science." I don't have any feelings for my mother to write poetry, so let her write it, just write well. ”