Eugene Ostashevsky
Eugene Ostashevsky ( Russian Евгений Осташевский ; born 1968 in Leningrad ) is a Russian-American poet .
life and work
Eugene Ostashevsky emigrated with his family from Leningrad to the USA in 1979 as a child . He grew up bilingual. He studied comparative literature at Stanford University . During his student days he was a member of the writers' collective 9x9 Industries and the performance artist group Vainglorious . In 2005 he published his first volume of poetry, Iterature . Eugene Ostashevsky's writing is influenced by the works of the Russian absurd Daniil Charms and appears to be Dadaistic, especially through onomatopoeic elements. As an editor, Eugene Ostashevsky also worked with Daniil Charms and the OBERIU group he founded . In 2006 he published OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism, the first English-language anthology of these authors. The third volume of poetry by Eugene Ostashevsky was published in 2010 in a transmission by Uljana Wolf under the title Auf dich Morris Imposternak, haunted by ironies in German. In 2014 the poet received a DAAD scholarship .
In addition to writing, Eugene Ostashevsky teaches literature at New York University .
Awards
- 2019: Prize of the City of Münster for International Poetry , together with the translators Monika Rinck and Uljana Wolf , for the volume of poetry Der Pirat, who does not know the value of Pi
Works
- Iterature , Ugly Duckling Press, New York 2005
- as editor: Oberiu. An Anthology of Russian Absurdism , Northwestern UP Evanston, 2006
- The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza , Ugly Duckling Presse, New York, 2008
- Enter Morris Imposternak, haunted by ironies , SuKuLTuR, Berlin, 2010
- as translator: Alexander Vvedensky: An Invitation for Me to Think , New York Review of Books Poets, New York, 2013
- The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi , NYRB Poets, 2017
- The pirate who doesn't know the value of pi. Poems. From the American English by Monika Rinck and Uljana Wolf. kookbooks, 2017. ISBN 9783937445830
Web links
- Literature by and about Eugene Ostashevsky in the catalog of the German National Library
- Eugene Ostashevsky. New York University, accessed June 23, 2017 .
- Eugene Ostashevsky. Lyrikline, accessed July 3, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ostashevsky, Eugene. DAAD, accessed on July 3, 2015 .
- ^ Anke Schaefer: Wordplayer in Berlin. Deutschlandradio Kultur, April 22, 2014, accessed on July 3, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ostashevsky, Eugene |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ostashevsky, Eugène |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American-Russian author and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leningrad |