Novella Matveyeva

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Novella Nikolayevna Matveyeva ({{langx|ru|Новелла Николаевна Матвеева}}; 7 October 1934 in Pushkin, Saint Petersburg – 4 September 2016, Moscow Oblast) was a Russian bard, poet, writer, screenwriter, dramatist, and literary scientist.Русские советские писатели. Поэты. Биобиблиограрфический указатель. Т.13. М., 1990. С.527{{cite news|url=http://www.colta.ru/news/12316|title=Умерла Новелла Матвеева|date=5 September 2016|publisher=Colta.ru|accessdate=5 September 2016}}[http://www.bards.ru/Matveeva_N/ "Матвеева Новелла Николаевна"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200220061811/http://www.bards.ru/Matveeva_N |date=2020-02-20 }} at bards.ru[http://www.bard.ru/html/Matveeva_N..htm "Матвеева Новелла Николаевна"], biography and catalogs of works at bards.ru

Novella was the cousin of poet Ivan Matveyev (Elagin). Her first collection of poetry was published in 1961, the same year she was admitted to the Union of Soviet Writers.

From the end of the 1950s, Matveyeva composed songs to her poetry and performed them, accompanying herself on a seven-string guitar.

Matveyeva died on 4 September 2016 at the age of 81.{{Cite web |url=http://true-news.info/the-poet-novella-matveeva-has-died-on-82-m-to-year-of-life/ |title=The poet Novella Matveeva has died on 82-m to year of life |access-date=2016-09-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915224813/http://true-news.info/the-poet-novella-matveeva-has-died-on-82-m-to-year-of-life/ |archive-date=2016-09-15 |url-status=dead }}