BIOGRAPHY
Anatoly
Kudryavitsky was born in Moscow in
1954 of a Ukrainian-born father and half-Irish mother. He was
educated at Moscow Medical University (graduated in 1978). A holder of
a PhD from Moscow Medical Academy, he has a background in biology,
Celtic heritage, music and literature.
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'', ''New Literary
Observer'', ''Strelets'', ''Grani'', "Deti Ra", "Zinziver", etc. He
was the founder and first President of the Russian Poetry
Society.
Having
lived in Russia
and Germany, Anatoly Kudryavitsky has been based in Dublin,
Ireland, since the beginning of this century. From 1999 until 2004 he
was on the Board of Directors of the
International Federation of Poetry Associations, UNESCO. Poet, fiction
writer and literary translator, he is Chairman of the Irish Haiku Society. From 2007 till 2022 he edited Shamrock Haiku Journal.
He is currently the editor of SurVision
Magazine.
In 2010,
he was a member of the judging panel for the Dublin IMPAC
Literary Award. His works have been translated into fourteen European
languages, and he
gave readings and workshops at various international literary festivals.
POETRY
READINGS
Belfast Festival at Queen's (Northern Ireland)
Dublin Writers' Festival (Dublin, Ireland)
Cork Spring Poetry Festival (Cork, Ireland)
Poetry Now! Festival (Dun Laoghaire, Ireland)
Writers' Week (Listowel, Co. Kerry, Ireland),
Scriobh Poetry Festival (Sligo, Ireland)
Ennis Book-Club Festival (Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland)
Gerard Manley Hopkins Summer School (Co. Kildare, Ireland)
Flying Colours Poetry Festival (Dublin, Ireland)
Lahti Writers Reunion Festival (Finland)
Zagreb Literary Festival (Croatia)
International PEN Writers' Festival (Croatia)
Craiova International Poetry Festival (Romania)
Vilenica Festival (Slovenia)
Struga Poetry Evenings (Macedonia)
Capoliveri Haiku Week (Italy)
International Biennial of Poetry (Liege, Belgium)
Ghent World Haiku Festival (Belgium)
Pushkin - Goethe Literary Festival (Berlin, Germany – Moscow, Russia)
"Americans and Russians" International Poetry Festival (Russia)
All-the-Union Free Verse Festival (Donetsk, Ukraine)
Bloodaxe Books British/Russian Poetry Festival (Russia)
Bashkirian Literary Tour (Russia)
White House Poetry Series (Limerick, Ireland)
Ó Bhéal Poetry Series (Cork, Ireland)
Palais Yalta Writers Series (Frankfurt, Germany)
RADIO
RTE Radio
1, Lyric FM, Radio Anna Livia, Radio 1 Russia, Dream Radio
Moscow
TELEVISION
RTE 1, TV
1 Russia, TV 6 Russia, Educational Channel TV Russia
MAGAZINE
EDITING
The Echo/L'Echo (1990 - 1993)
The
Archer/Strelets (1994 - 1998)
Foreign
Literature (Inostrannaya Literatura) (1997 - 1998)
Okno/Window Russian-language Poetry Magazine (2007 - 2014)
Shamrock
Haiku Journal (2007 - 2022)
Emerald
Bolts Magazine for Flash Fiction (2012 - 2014)
SurVision
Magazine (2017 - )
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 Poet of the Year (Russia, 2006)
Capoliveri
International Haiku Award (Italy, 2007)
Suruga
Baika Prize of Literary Excellence (Japan, 2008)
"Haiku
Magazine" Haiku Award (Romania/Japan, 2009)
''Zinziver''
magazine Short Story Writer of the Year (Russia, 2010)
David
Burliuk Award for Life-Long Commitment to Experimental Literature
(Russia, 2010)
Vladimir
Devide Haiku Award (Japan, 2012, 2014)
Mihai Eminescu Academy Award (Romania, 2017)
English PEN Translate Award (England, 2020)
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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
''Poet who
voices the unspoken.''
JOSEPH
BRODSKY
''His
work as poet, haikuist, translator and
anthologist has greatly enriched Irish poetry.''
DENNIS
O'DRISCOLL
The
Author's Other Sites
Russian
website / Сайт автора на русском
Spanish web-page /
Página web en Español
Poems in French translation
Translations
of Irish
Poetry into Russian
Emerald Bolts Magazine
for Flash Fiction
Translations of
Russian Poetry into English
"OKNO", a
Russian-language Literary Magazine
Contemporary
Russian Poets Database
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