Rits Evgenia Semyonovna (born 29 May 1977 The City of Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod) is a Russian poet and literary critic, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, connected to Nizhny Novgorod as her birthplace, place of education and residence. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Pedagogical University; the subject of her dissertation was "The Natural and the Cultural in N. F. Fyodorov's Philosophy of Man."[1][2]
Poetic work
Rits is the author of three books of poetry. The first — "Returning to Lightness" (Moscow: OGI, 2005), the second — "The City Is Big. My Head Aches" (Moscow: ARGO-RISK, Knizhnoye Obozreniye, 2007), the third — "She Sleeps by Day".[1] Her poems have been published in the journals Oktyabr, Vozdukh, Novy Bereg, Volga — XXI vek, the almanacs Vavilon and "Reflect+куадусешщт" (Chicago), the anthology Bratskaya Kolybel, the online journals REC and TextOnly, and the websites "Setevaya Slovesnost" and "Molodaya Russkaya Literatura".[1][2]
Rits took part in a number of poetry festivals: "Strelka" (Nizhny Novgorod, 2005, 2007), "SLOWWWO" (Nizhny Novgorod, 2006; Kaliningrad, 2003, 2004), "Winter SLOWWWO" (Moscow, 2006), the Fourth Festival of Young Poetry (Moscow, 2004), and the Fifth May Festival of New Poets (Saint Petersburg, 2006).[1] She is a member of the "Polutona" poetry community.[1]
Organizing Nizhny Novgorod festivals
As part of the "Kultura Mezhdurechya" (Culture of Mesopotamia) group, Rits served as co-organizer of Nizhny Novgorod poetry festivals: "Another Province" (2000), "Strelka" (2005), and "SLOWWWO" (2006). The "Strelka" poetry festival was awarded the "Literaturrentgen" prize (Yekaterinburg) in 2006 in the category "Best Non-Capital Poetry Festival in Russia."[1][2]
Critical work
In her critical writing, Rits addresses contemporary world prose. In a piece published in Novy Mir (No. 5, 2016), she analyzes the novels of Umberto Eco (The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana), Jaume Cabré (Confessions), and other authors in the context of memory and Alzheimer's disease.[2] Her poems and articles have been published in Novy Mir and other literary journals.[2]
Awards and recognition
In 2004 she made the long list of the "Debut" prize, and in 2007 the short list of the "REC" prize.[1] In 2021 the book She Sleeps by Day received the Grand "Moskovsky Schyot" (Moscow Tally) prize, and that same year Rits was nominated for the Andrei Bely Prize in the "Poetry" category. In 2022 she became a laureate of the "Vavilon" prize.[1] In 2019 and 2020 she was nominated for the "Neistovy Vissarion" prize.[1]
Sources
- livelib.ru — Evgenia Rits — biography, books, reviews, quotes
- nm1925.ru — Stronger Than the Reason of Sorrowful Memory. Evgenia Rits. Novy Mir No. 5, 2016 (archive)
- magazines.gorky.media — Stronger Than the Reason of Sorrowful Memory — Zhurnalny Zal — Rits's article "Stronger Than the Reason of Sorrowful Memory," published in Novy Mir (No. 5, 2016), addresses the theme of memory and its… (archive)