Antonina Kymytval, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Russian poet
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Place of Birth: Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Magadan Oblast, Russia
About Antonina Kymytval
- Antonina Aleksandrovna Kymytval (Russian: ??????´?? ??????´??????? ???????´?, Chukot: ?????????? ) (April 22, 1938 - October 29, 2015) was a Chukchi poet and children's writer who wrote mainly in her native language. Born in the village of Mukhomornoye, Anadyrsky District, Kymytval was the daughter of a reindeer herder, and was called "Rul-tyne" (Chukot: ????-????) at birth.
- Her parents died when she was young, as did her twin brother, whereupon she was renamed "Kymytval", Chukchi for "worm", in an attempt to ward off evil.
- She first attended boarding school before entering the Anadyr Pedagogical College in 1958, from which she graduated the following year; it was at this time she began to write poetry, publishing her first volume, in Chukchi, in Magadan in 1960.
- In this same year she entered the Higher Party School of Khabarovsk, and soon thereafter she became deputy editor of the Sovetskaya Chukotka newspaper.
- She went to Moscow for further study in 1966 and 1967, and in 1968 published her first volume of verse for children.
- She continued to write plays and poems for children, developing a relationship with the Magadan Puppet Theater.
- Kymytval lived in Magadan for many years before her death.
- Late in life she was incapacitated by a series of strokes; she died in Abinsk, in the home of her daughter.Kymytval wrote lyric poetry, and concerned herself with descriptions of the landscape in which she lived.
- Some of her work has been translated into Russian.
- A member of the Writers' Union since 1962, she received the Order of the Badge of Honor and the Medal "For Labour Valour" in 1988.
- In 1990 she received an award for her work from the UNESCO International Children's Book Council.
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