Eugene Ostashevsky (born 1968) is a Russian-American writer, poet, translator and professor at
New York University
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.
Early life and education
Ostashevsky was born in
Leningrad
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
.
He immigrated with his parents to the United States when he was 11 years old. They settled in New York City.
Ostashevsky has a PhD from
Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
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Personal life
Ostashevsky is based in Berlin. He is the father of two daughters.
English, Russian, German, Turkish, and German Sign Language are spoken in his family, but not all by him.
Awards and honors
*2014 (with
Matvei Yankelevich) ''
The ALTA National Translation Award'', for ''An Invitation for Me to Think'' by the Russian poet
Alexander Vvedensky (translated by Ostashevsky and Yankelevich)
*2019
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, together with the translators
Monika Rinck
Monika Rinck (born 29 April 1969 in Zweibrücken) is a German writer.
Life and work
After graduating from high school, Monika Rinck studied religious studies, history, and comparative literature in Bochum, Berlin and Yale. She writes poetry, pro ...
and
Uljana Wolf
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Uljana Wolf was born in East Berlin in 1979. ...
, for the volume of poetry ''The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi''
Poetry
*''The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi'' NYRB Poets, 2017
*''The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza'' Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008.
*''Enter Morris Imposternak, Pursued by Ironies'' Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008.
*''Iterature'' Ugly Duckling Presse, 2005
Translation and Scholarship
*''
F Letter: New Russian Feminist Poetry''; trans. with
Galina Rymbu and Ainsley Morse. Poetry.
ISOLARII, 2020.
*''The Fire Horse: Children’s Poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Osip Mandelstam, and Daniil Kharms'' NYRB Children, 2017.
*''Arkadii Dragomoshchenko Endarkenment: Selected Poems'' Wesleyan University Press, 2014.
*''Alexander Vvedensky An Invitation for Me to Think'' NYRB Poets, 2013. Winner of National Translation Award, 2014.
*''OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism. Poetry, fiction, and drama by Alexander Vvedensky, Daniil Kharms, Nikolai Zabolotsky, Nikolai Oleinikov, Yakov Druskin and Leonid Lipavsky'' Ed.; trans. with Matvei Yankelevich Northwestern University Press, 2006.
*''Dmitry Golynko. As It Turned Out'' Ed.; trans. with Rebecca Bella. Poetry. Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008.
References
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1968 births
Living people
Stanford University alumni
New York University faculty
Soviet emigrants to the United States