Eugene Ostashevsky (born 1968) is a Russian-American writer, poet, translator and professor at

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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

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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

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and

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, 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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ostashevsky, Eugene 1968 births Living people Stanford University alumni New York University faculty Soviet emigrants to the United States