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"Sergey Gandlevsky is one of the most celebrated contemporary Russian poets. Born in 1952, Gandlevsky opted out of the Soviet system, working odd jobs and sharing poetry with a small coterie of friends in the 1970s and '80s. His work did not appear in Russian literary journals until the late '80s, during glasnost and perestroika. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Gandlevsky's poetry and prose have received nearly every major Russian literary prize: the Little Booker Prize, the Anti-Booker Prize, the Moscow Score Prize, and the Poet Prize. A Russian critics' poll named him the country's most important living poet. His writing--poetry, fiction, and essays--has been translated into numerous languages. ... Rendered into English by award-winning poet and translator Philip Metres, Ochre & Rust presents five decades of the best work from a major voice in Russian letters"--
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Sergey Gandlevsky is one of the most celebrated contemporary Russian poets. Gandlevsky opted out of the Soviet system, working odd jobs and sharing poetry with a small coterie of friends in the 1970s and '80s. His work did not appear in Russian literary journals until the late 1980s, during glasnost. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, his poetry and prose have received nearly every major Russian literary prize: the Little Booker Prize (1996), the Anti-Booker Prize (1996), the Moscow Score prize (2009), and the Poet Prize (2010). A Russian critics' poll in the 2000s named him the country's most important living poet. His writing-poetry, fiction, and essays-has been translated into numerous languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Georgian, Hungarian, Finnish, Polish, Lithuanian, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Turkish, Chinese, and Japanese. In English, Gandlevsky's poetry also appears in
A Kindred Orphanhood: Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky (Zephyr Press, 2003). Gandlevsky's two novels also appear in English translation by Suzanne Fusso:
Trepanation of the Skull (Northern Illinois University Press, 2014) and
Illegible (Northern Illinois University Press, 2019). Since 1993, Gandlevsky has worked at the journal
Foreign Literature. A lifelong Muscovite, Gandlevsky relocated to the Republic of Georgia when the war in Ukraine began.
