More than 60 years have passed since the birth of Tatyana Gorbulyina, the author of many wonderful poems, stories, and novels.
Tatyana has been gone for fourteen years—tragically her life was cut short by an accident. She was born in the town of Borovichi in the Novgorod region, and moved to Kursk in the early 1970s. She worked in various design organizations—“Kurskselstroy,” “Oblkommunproekt,” the automobile roads administration… The work was creative, but far from literature. Yet in Tatyana there emerged a passion, a need to express her feelings in words.
Her first poetic lines saw the light in the newspaper “The Young Guard,” and her first story was published in 1984 in the almanac “Literary Russia.” Around that time she became a participant in the All-Union conference of young writers, after which her novels and stories appeared in magazines such as “Sputnik,” “Pod’yom,” “Our Contemporary,” and “Sever.”
The well-known Kursk journalist Alexander Prozorov characterized her work best. “If only she had stayed… on the poetic path, she would undoubtedly have grown into a major lyric poet. But her still rather funny young years quickly inclined Tatyana toward ‘severe prose.’ And she began writing right away, without the usual apprenticeship period. And she received recognition not from just anyone, but from Evgeny Nosov himself—who always spoke of Tatyana Gorbulyina’s work with sincere admiration. In one conversation, Ivanovich said about her: ‘Atomic writing!’
That’s the remark. As they say, nothing could be better. Now it’s the time to take any of Tatyana Gorbulyina’s works—‘The Circle,’ ‘One Life,’ ‘What Will He Answer,’ ‘The Boy with a Fox Cub at the End of October,’ ‘We Part as Living,’ ‘Kommunarka Street,’ ‘Tango for a Writer’s Wife’—and reread them. You won’t regret it.