Stanislav Lvovsky (b. 1972) was born in Moscow and has worked in advertising, cultural events management, and journalism. Lvovsky is former editor-in-chief of the “Literature” section of Openspace.ru/Colta.ru and winner of several Russian literary awards including, among others, Andrey Bely Prize (2017, for the poetry collection Poems from the Book and Other Poems). He is the author of six published collections of poetry, one short story collection and one novel (written in co-authorship with Linor Goralik). One of his poems was the basis of the project “Quiet War Songs” (2015) by six contemporary Russian composers as well as for the contemporary dance performance “Parasomnias”. Lvovsky regularly publishes articles on political and social issues as well as on cultural history and contemporary Russian poetry in various periodicals and academic journals. His poetry has been translated into and published in English, French, Chinese, Italian and other languages. Currently, he is finishing his DPhil thesis on Soviet cultural history at the University of Oxford.
Stanislav Lvovsky. Poems from the Book and Other Poems
