 |
|
| From top to bottom: Dmitry Golynko, Lev Oborin, Andrei Rodionov, Andrei Sen-Senkov. |
|
VISITING AWARD-WINNING RUSSIAN AUTHORS PRESENT WORKS TO DC COMMUNITY, COMPLETE RESIDENCY AT UNC-CHAPEL HILL
Four acclaimed writers from across Russia will be visiting Washington, DC September 24-30, as part of a program to encourage cross-cultural communication through the arts. The visit follows a residency at UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Dmitry Golynko, Lev Oborin, Andrei Rodionov, and Andrei Sen-Senkov will present their work in Russian and in translation at two public readings in the DC area.
Wednesday, September 26, 6:30pm.
Gelman Library, Room 207
George Washington University
2130 H Street NW
The reading is hosted by the Global Resources Center
Thursday, September 27, noon
National Endowment for the Arts, Room 716
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
See press coverage of the visit
Meet the Writers
Dmitry Golynko, born in 1969 in Leningrad, is a poet, literary and art critic, and a scholar of history and cultural theory. He holds advanced degrees in Russian Language and Literature as well as Art History from one of St. Petersburg’s premier universities, State Pedagogical University. In 2004-2005, he served as a visiting professor in the Slavic Department at Cheongju University in South Korea, and, in the winter of 2005, as a writer-in-residence at the Literarischer Coloqium in Berlin, Germany. He currently works as a researcher at the Russian Institute of Art History in Saint Petersburg and is a member of the editorial board for the Moscow Art Magazine. He continues to live in Saint Petersburg. Golynko is the author of three books of poetry, Homo Scribens (1994), Directory (2001), and Concrete Doves (2003) and numerous critical essays on contemporary art and literature published in Russia’s leading journals. His poems and essays have been translated and published in English, German, French, Finnish, Swedish, and Italian.
A volume of Golynko’s selected poems will be published in the United States by Ugly Duckling Presse (January, 2008).
Lev Oborin is a poet and translator. He was born in 1987 outside of Moscow, and moved to the city after finishing high school. Oborin’s poetry has been published extensively in Russia’s leading literary journals as well as in many on-line publications. In 2004, Oborin was short listed for the Debut Award, Russia’s top literary competition for young authors. Currently, he is a student of Philology at Russian State University for the Humanities, where he is writing a thesis on “The Secret Languages of Children in Russian Folklore and Literature.”
Since 2006, he has been working on a web-based project dedicated to experimental poetry. His translations of American poetry and prose appeared in the Journal of Foreign Literature and will be featured in a forthcoming Anthology of American Female Poets (Inostranka, 2007-2008). He presents his work regularly at Moscow literary clubs and festivals and participates in organizing poetry readings and events. He also writes lyrics and plays guitar in a Moscow indie-rock band.
Andrei Rodionov is a poet. In the writer’s own words:
"I was born in Moscow. My childhood and youth were spent in Mytischi [a notoriously rough suburb of Moscow]. That experience shaped the character of my creative work: the suburbs – with their uncertainty, alcoholism, anger, and humanity – the excesses and emotions of the locals. Nine- and five-story concrete apartment buildings ad nauseam, and gangs of drunken youths. I graduated from the Moscow Polygraphic Institute with a degree in Book Science and Literary Merchandising and worked in a bookstore for a year and a half. Since 1993, I have worked in the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Musical Academic Theater as a set designer and textile colorist for costumes and sets. I was first published in 2001. I am married, with three children – all boys. Religion is of little interest to me but basically, I am Russian Orthodox. I work as a journalist and columnist for the journal Krokodil (Crocodile)."
Rodionov is the author of two books of poetry, Welcome to Moscow (2003) and Dumplings. Oysters. (2004) and numerous publications in Russia’s leading literary journals. He frequently presents his work in public readings. In 2002, he was the winner of the Russian Slam competition.
Rodionov’s work is included in the Anthology of Contemporary Russian Poetry, which is currently being prepared for publication in the United States (2007-2008).
Andrei Sen-Senkov is a poet, prose writer, and photographer. In the writer’s own words:
"I was born in 1968 in Tajikistan. I have a strange family, prone to global migration. My mother was born in Abkhazia [a region in the Caucasus]. My father, in Kyrghyzstan. My mother’s parents came from the Ural Mountains. My father’s parents were from Belarus. My great-great-grandfather was French. How he ended up in Russia—this is a riddle that I will never solve.
"As a child in a village of Kansai – a little town in Tajikistan built by the Japanese after World War II (incidentally, Haruki Murakami was also born in Kansai... the original Kansai, in Japan, that is) – I went to school, listened to underground rock music, and read books. Then, not knowing what I wanted to do next, I applied to the Medical Institute for a single reason: my mother really wanted me to become a doctor. And so I became one. Before this, I had managed to complete my military service in the air force.
"At 17, I began to write. At 23, I stopped being shy about sharing my work. At 27, my first book came out. Then a second, and a third… Now the sixth is coming out, though I have yet to see it.
"Soon my son will be 16 years old. We like similar music. But our tastes in literature and film are completely different...
"I love coffee, cigarettes with white filters, Charles Bukowski, cats, Johnnie Depp, Jack Daniels, and Lou Reed…"
Sen-Senkov is the author of five books of poetry, prose and “visual” poems. He is a regular participant in Moscow literary festivals, performing free verse and short prose. In 1998 he was an award-winner at the Turgenev Festival for Short Prose, and in 2006 he was short-listed for the Andrei Belyi Award.
Support for the cultural program is provided through partnership and funding from the National Endowment for the Arts; the Open World Leadership Center funds the administrative portion of the program.
|
About
___
ArtsLink Awards
___
Leadership in the Arts
___
VisArt
___
Publications
___
Past Projects
___
Home
