Yury Mikhaylovich Kublanovsky (russian: Ю́рий Миха́йлович Кублано́вский; 30 April 1947 in

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and art historian, known for his dissident past, started in the informal literary union

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. The author of dozens of lyrical books appearing in

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Biography

Yuri Kublanovsky was born in the family of the actor and teacher of Russian literature. His grandfather, a priest, was shot in 1930. In the house of his grandmother kept the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Russia. Despite the fact that his parents were communists, he was baptized. He was fond of painting, with 10 years of experience in the art studio at one time wanted to be a painter. Poems, by his own admission, he began to write in 14–15 years. He started with the

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, considering that resist official

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, Russian futurists. In 1962 he went to Moscow and showed his poems to

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. He approved it. From October 1982 to 1990 he lived as an emigre (

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and

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praised the poet. Kublanovsky has received the

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, Mandelstam Prize,

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Poem books

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, 1981; * С последним солнцем. — Paris: La Presse Libre, 1983 (afterword by

); * Оттиск. — Paris: YMCA-Press, 1985; * Затмение. — Paris, YMCA-Press, 1989; * Возвращение. — Moscow: Правда, 1990; * Оттиск. — Moscow, 1990; * Чужбинное. — Moscow: Моск. рабочий, 1993; * Число. — Moscow: изд-во Московского клуба, 1994; * Памяти Петрограда. — Saint Petersburg: Пушкинский фонд, 1994; * Голос из хора. — Paris-Moscow-New-York, 1995; * Заколдованный дом. — Moscow: Русский путь, 1998; * Дольше календаря. — Moscow: Русский путь, 2001; * В световом году. — Moscow: Русский путь, 2001. — ; * На обратном пути. — Moscow: Русскій міръ, 2006. — ; * Дольше календаря. — Moscow: Время, 2006; * Перекличка. — Moscow: Время, 2009;
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— Rybinsk: Медиарост, 2010; * Изборник. — Irkutsk: Издатель Сапронов, 2011;
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— Moscow: Викмо-М; Русский путь, 2012, — , 978-5-85887-422-5. * Неисправные времена. — М.: Вифсаида: Русский путь, 2015. — . * Долгая переправа: 2001—2017. — М.: Б.С.Г.-Пресс, 2017. — . * Crépuscule d'impressioniste. — Париж: Le Castor Astral, 2018. — .

References

Literary evenings "This Summer in Irkutsk-2011": Yuri Kublanovsky "Reading in Bad Weather"

Once a Dissident, Always a Dissident
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Contemporary Russian Poetry: An Anthology
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