THE RUSSIAN VERSION: SELECTED POEMS OF ELENA FANAILOVA (Eastern European Poets Series)
Elena Nikolayevna Fanailova (born 19 December 1962) is a  Russian poet. Born in Voronezh, she graduated from the  Voronezh  Medical Institute and earned a degree in journalism from  Voronezh State University. She worked for six years as a  doctor at  Voronezh Regional Hospital. In 1995 she became a  correspondent for Radio Svoboda, and has lived and  worked in Moscow since  the late nineties. She has contributed verse and literary  reviews to Znamya, the New Literary Review, Critical Mass,  Mitin  Journal, and other publications. She has also translated the  verses of Serhiy Zhadan from Ukrainian. She received the  Andrei  Bely Prize in 1999 and the Moscow Count Prize in 2003.  Her poetry is characterized by its harsh outlook and precise  language.  During the early 2000s it came to be representative of the  new Russian literary preoccupation with the theme of  citizenship  and the problems of personal historical memory and  historical self-image.