(. Tomas Venclova; . 11 1937, , ) , , , , . - , (Raketos, planetos ir mes, 1962). (Kalbos zenklas, 1972). c , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . , , - - , , ( ), (Vilniaus vardai; ; 564 [5]). 2009 (Vilnius. A Guide to Its Names and People).
, 2004 " " (.), . C 2006 , . , Factory of Tears (2008) Collected Body (2011), , Something Indecent: Poems Recommended by Eastern European Poets, Gossip and Metaphysics: Prose and Poetry of Russian Modernist Poets ( ). Lannan Foundation Fellowship, Bess Hokins Prize "Poetry", Amy Clampitt Fellowship, Burda Poetry Prize (), (). Best American Poetry, New European Poets, The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry, .. .
1964 , . (). . , , . . , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . , , . (2013), " BBC" (2015). , , , . 2000 -.
The Fourth Annual Oleg Woolf Memorial Readings
Tomas Venclova, Valzhyna Mort, and Vasil Makhno
Introduction by Slava Polishchuk.
Hosted by Irina Mashinski
Thursday, December 8, 2016 @8PM
Uncle Vanya Cafe
Address: 315 W 54th St (@ 8 Ave),
New York, NY 10019
Please find and like us on Facebook
Tomas Venclova (b. 1937) is a Lithuanian poet, prose writer, scholar, philologist and translator of literature. He is one of the five founding members of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group. In 1977, following his dissident activities, he was forced to emigrate and was deprived of his Soviet citizenship. Since 1980 he has taught Russian and Polish literature at Yale University. Considered a major figure in world literature, he has received many awards, including the Prize of Two Nations (received jointly with Czeslaw Milosz), and The Person of Tolerance of the Year Award from the Sugihara Foundation, among other honors.
Valzhyna Mort was born in Minsk, Belarus, and made her American debut in 2008 with Factory of Tears, followed, in 2011, by Collected Body (both Copper Canyon Press). She is the editor of two poetry anthologies, Something Indecent: Poems Recommended by Eastern European Poets, and Gossip and Metaphysics: Prose and Poetry of Russian Modernist Poets (with Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris). Mort has received the Lannan Foundation Fellowship, the Bess Hokins Prize from Poetry, the Amy Clampitt Fellowship, Burda Poetry Prize for Eastern European authors, and Crystal of Vilenica. Currently, she is a visiting assistant professor at Cornell University.
Vasyl Makhno (b.1964) is a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, essayist, and translator. He is the author of ten collections of poetry. He has also published two book of essays The Gertrude Stein Memorial Cultural and Recreation Park (2006) and Horn of Plenty (2011), and two plays Coney Island (2006) and Bitch/Beach Generation (2007). He has also translated Zbigniew Herberts and Janusz Szubers poetry from Polish into Ukrainian, and edited an anthology of young Ukrainian poets from the 1990s. He is the 2013 recipient of Serbias Povele Morave Prize in Poetry and BBC Book of the Year Award 2015. Makhno currently lives in New York City.
On Facebook
