Writer - poet - ballet dancer
A member of The Writers Union of Russia (MGO - Moscow City Organization); Awarded literary awards and medals of Chechov and Griboedov for the achievement in Russian literature. Svetlana Danielle Deon was born in Saint Petersburg. In early 80’s immigrated to the United States where she obtained her Master’s Degree in International Marketing with minor in Philology at The Columbian University of New York. Professional ballet dancer -Vaganova school. In 1999 the Russian Television Network in USA (RTN) filmed a documentary “The Poetic flight of a Russian Terpsichore” - about a poet and ballet dancer Svetlana Deon: The author of 5 poetry books in Russian (("Ne dyshi bez menja"/ “DON´T BREATH WITHOUT ME”– Hermitage press, USA 1998, . “Tysjacha i odna zhiznn" / Thousand And One LIFE” – BLITS, SPB Russia 1998, “Kruzhevo vremeni"/”TIMELACE” – Limbus, SPB 2002), "Nebesni Pochtalion"/"Celestial Postman" with CD of Songs written by composer/musician Igor Tukalo, West Consulting, Moscow 2010) and a novel The LOVEBEGGAR (RETRO, SPB 2006) nominated in 2006 for National Bestseller in Russia (Нацбест). Writes poetry in Russian, English, Spanish and French. A finalist in “Pushkin in Britain Competition” – 2004. Her poetry and prose in Russian had won 4 awards and form part of 10 anthologies: UNDER ONE SKY- “TAIVAS”, (Helicon SPB 2007), ALMANACH NLO” - 2009– 1st prize winners’ poems, International Anthology of Poetry "ZEMLIAKI, Anthology "MAGIcal WORD" - MAGI´s writers 2010 and 7 volumes of poetry of Svetoch Fund, and those in English are included in 5 compilations of National Library of Poetry: "The Evolving secret", "The sounds of Poetry", "The Fabric of Life" y "The Best Poems 98", Forever Spoken, 2008 - USA. The poetry of Svetlana Deon was published in a number of Russian and Spanish magazines and newspapers, among them: Журнальный зал-"ДетиРа, «Зинзивер», "Поэтоград, "Knizhnoe Obozrenie-"Книжное обозрение", "Piterbook"-"Питербоок",, "Slovo”(España - Portugal)- "Слово" (Испания, Португалия),, "Stantsia Mir"- "Станция Мир",, "Komsomolskaya Pravda" - Комсомольская Правда, MK- ESPAÑA - Московский Комсомолец.
|
S Deon -1992 New York
PHoto by Nodar Djin |
Svetlana Deon and Andrei Juravlev
"SWAN LAKE" 1997 |
Svetlana Deon and Andrei Juravlev "Jiselle" 1997 |
Svetlana Deon and Andrei Juravlev
"El Corsar" 1999 |
|