Ukrainian poetess, playwright, prose writer, publicist.
She studied at the 29th school in Odessa (now the 9th lyceum), from the stage of the assembly hall of which she read her first poems. Subsequently, the Odessa magazine "Fountain" began to publish the best of them, and in 1995, when Anya was still 14 years old, the first author's collection of her poems came out of print. In May 1997, Anna participated in the Miss Press contest, which was held in Ukraine for the first time. The article, written immediately after the competition, was given the ambiguous title by the eleventh-grader “First jump” (the prize was a parachute jump). Yablonskaya's poems were also published in Deribasovskaya-Rishelevsky and other Odessa periodicals. From her school years, Anna showed an interest in dramaturgy and stage. The director of the theater-studio "Tour de Force" Natalya Knyazeva, in which Anna acted as a schoolgirl, also became the director of her play "The Door".
In April 2011, it was planned to stage one of Anna Yablonskaya's performances at the Royal Court Theatre. Arriving in this regard in July 2010 in London, she attended about 20 performances in various theaters, including the National Theater and the Old Vic. While reading her play at the Royal Court, she met playwrights Mark Ravenhill, David Hare[en], Martin Crimp, and later Carill Churchill[en].
In an article in the English The Guardian, Natalia Antonova noted that Anna was a very modern playwright; The themes of many of her plays are family life, love and sex. However, in doing so, she “never sought to shock the audience; her lyrics were graceful, feminist, but not overtly political."
Published in the almanac "Province" (№ 19, 2009)
Several performances of her plays took place in the theaters of St. Petersburg. Director Anton Milochkin, who staged the "Video Camera" at the theater on Galernaya, according to Anna herself, "finally reconciled" her with St. Petersburg. The last time Anna was in St. Petersburg at the beginning of December 2010, where she flew to read "Pagans". The city on the Neva became for her the last of those that she visited in her life.
The play "Pagans" was awarded the "Art of Cinema" award, which was presented on the day of Anna's death.
