BIOGRAPHY

Born in Moscow in 1954 of a Polish father and half-Irish mother, he lived in Russia and Germany (since 1999),
and now lives in Dublin as an Irish citizen.

A former Samizdat author, he was blacklisted in 1979, and first saw his work published in 1989. Since then, his poems and short stories have appeared in the best Russian literary magazines, e.g. ''Novy Mir'', ''Druzhba Narodov'', ''Novaya Yunost'', ''Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie'', ''Strelets'', ''Grani'', etc.

Seven collections of his Russian poems were published in Moscow, three last ones with ''Tretya Volna'' (in 1996, 1998 and 2001). They were followed by a book of his English poems entitled ''Shadow of Time'' (Goldsmith Press, Ireland, 2005) and an anthology of contemporary Russian poetry in English translation entitled ''A Night in the Nabokov Hotel'' (Dedalus Press, Ireland, 2006). A new collection of his poems entitled "Morning at Mount Ring" was published by Doghouse Press, Ireland in summer 2007.

He was the founder and first President of the Russian Poetry Society. From 1999 till 2004 he was on the Board of Directors of the International Federation of Poetry Associations, UNESCO. Poet, fiction writer and literary translator, he is a member of the Russian Writers'' Union and the Irish PEN. He is also Chairman of the Irish Haiku Society (http://www.irishhaiku.webs.com) and Editor of Shamrock Haiku Journal  (http://www.shamrockhaiku.webs.com)

In 2003 he was awarded the Edgeworth Prize for poetry, in 2005 shortlisted for the Robert Graves Poetry Award, in 2006 won the Poetry Prize of the ''Deti Ra'' magazine (Moscow).
His work has been translated into nine European languages, and he gave readings at various international literary festivals.

Education: Moscow Medical University (Graduate 1978.)
Ph.D. in Immunology (Moscow Medical Academy, 1987.)



Dublin Writers Festival, Festival of World Cultures (Dun Laoghaire), International Biennial of Poetry (Liege, Belgium), Struga Poetry Evenings (Macedonia), Zagreb Literary Festival (Croatia), Vilenica Festival (Slovenia), Pushkin - Goethe Festival (Berlin - Moscow), Poetry Ireland readings (Dublin), ''Out to Lunch'' reading (Bank of Ireland Arts Centre, Dublin), Scriobh (Sligo), Gerard Manley Hopkins Festival (Co. Kildare), Belfast Festival, Writers'' Week (Listowell, Co. Kerry), Flying Colours Festival of Contemporary Irish Poetry (Dublin), Irish Literary Week (Moscow), All-the-Union Free Verse Festival (Donetsk, the Ukraine), Americans and Russians Poetry Festival (Moscow), Bloodaxe Books British - Russian Poetry Festival (Moscow - St.Petersburg), Bashkirian Literary Tour (with Genrikh Sapgir, Valeria Narbikova, and Alexander Glezer), etc.



RTE Radio 1, Radio Anna Livia, Radio 1 Russia, Dream Radio Moscow


TELEVISION

TV 1 Russia, TV 6 Russia, Educational Channel TV Russia


MAGAZINE EDITING

The Echo / L''Echo
The Archer(Strelets)
Foreign Literature (Inostrannaya Literatura)
Shamrock Haiku Journal
Okno / Window Russian-language Poetry Magazine


AWARDS

Nomination for the Octavio Paz International Poetry Award (Mexico, 1999)
The Independent/Ex Libris Award for the best literary translation of the year (Russia, 2001)
Maria Edgeworth Poetry Prize (Ireland, 2003)
Shortlisted for the Robert Graves Poetry Award (UK - Ireland, 2005)
''Deti Ra'' magazine Poetry Award (Russia, 2006)
Capoliveri International Haiku Award (Italy, 2007)


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QUOTATIONS
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''A samizdat poet who had to put up with a good deal of abuse during the Communist period and who has only been able to publish openly in recent years. In his ''poetics of silence'' the words count as much for the silence they make possible as for what they say themselves''

LEONARD SCHWARTZ, Poetry Project Newsletter


''A poet who gives voice to Russian silence''

JOSEPH BRODSKY




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