Anatoly Kudryavitsky
Anatoly was born in Moscow in 1954 of a Polish father and half-Irish mother. He lived in Russia and Germany (between 1999 and 2002), and now lives in Dublin as an Irish citizen.
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 such as Novy Mir, Druzhba Narodov, Novaya Yunost, Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, Strelets, Grani, Deti Ra, etc.
He has published two novels titled "The Case-Book of Inspector Mylls" (Zakharov Books, Moscow, 2008), and "A Parade of Mirrors and Reflections" (Deti Ra, Moscow, 2009), as well as a number of short stories. Seven collections of his Russian poems appeared in Moscow; most recent ones in 1996, 1998 and 2001 (all from Tretya Volna Publishing). They were followed by a book of his English poems entitled "Shadow of Time" (Goldsmith Press, Ireland, 2005) and an anthology of contemporary Russian poetry in English translation entitled "A Night in the Nabokov Hotel" (Dedalus Press, Ireland, 2006).
He was the founder and first President of the Russian Poetry Society. From 1999 till 2004 he was on the Board of Directors of the International Federation of Poetry Associations, UNESCO. Poet, fiction writer and literary translator, he is a member of the Russian Writers' Union and the Irish PEN. He is also Chairman of the Irish Haiku Society and Editor of Shamrock Haiku Journal (http://shamrockhaiku.webs.com).
In 2003 he was awarded the Edgeworth Prize for poetry, in 2005 shortlisted for the Robert Graves Poetry Award, in 2006 won the Poetry Prize of the Deti Ra magazine (Moscow), and in 2008 was awarded the Suruga Baika Prize of Excellency for his haiku (Japan). His work has been translated into eleven European languages, and he gave readings at various international literary festivals.
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