Igor Yakovlevich Pomerantsev

Igor Pomerantsev (2009)

Igor Jakowlewitsch Pomeranzew ( Russian Игорь Яковлевич Померанцев , also Pomerantsev ; born January 11, 1948 in Saratow in the USSR ) is a Russian writer.

He studied English philology and education at the University of Chernivtsi . His first poetry publications appeared in 1972 in the Moscow magazine "Smena". He was in contact with the Ukrainian civil rights movement. In 1976 Pomerantsev was arrested by the KGB . He was accused of possessing and distributing political literature, listening to enemy broadcasts and maintaining contacts with foreigners. In 1977 he was advised to emigrate.

In 1978 he emigrated to Germany with his wife and ten-month-old son Peter . In 1979 he moved to London and worked there for the BBC . In 1987 he moved to Munich, where he has been working as a producer for Radio Free Europe (Russia) / Radio Liberty (RFE / RL) since then. He currently lives in Prague.

Literature by Igor Pomerantsev

Russian

"Aubades and Serenades", Russian Roulette Press, London 1985
"Poems of Various Days", "Sovietskij Pisatel", Saint Petersburg, 1993
"The Beaufort Scale", Urbi Publishing House, Saint Petersburg, 1997
"News", Fact Publishing House, Kiev, 1998
"Red Dry", NLO Publishing House, Moscow, 2000
"Family Status", OGI, Moscow, 2002
"Radio S", MK Periodicals, Moscow, 2002
"Radio Lyrics", NLO, Moscow, 2007
"Homo eroticus", Duch i litera, Kiev 2013
"Pozdnij sbor", Meridian Chernivtsi, Chernivtsi 2015

Ukrainian

KGB and other poems, Grani-T Publishing House, Kiev, 2009

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personal data
SURNAME	Pomeranzew, Igor Jakowlewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pomerantsev, Igor; Померанцев, Игорь Яковлевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian writer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 11, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH	Saratov