Dmitry Kuzmin
Genres
Poetry
Biography
Dmitry Kuzmin, born in 1968, graduated from Moscow State University for Pedagogics and taught literature, working as an assistant professor of foreign literature and literary translation. In 1989 Kuzmin founded the Vavilon Union of Young Poets, the organisational hub for Moscow’s experimental poetry scene. In 1996 he started the Vavilon Internet project, an online anthology of current Russian writing. Since 1993 he has been the head of ARGO-RISK Publishers producing about 20 new poetry titles annually.
He has run several periodicals including the first Russian magazine for gay writing Risk. He is currently editor in chief of Vozdukh (Air), a quarterly poetry magazine. His poetry has been published in translation in many US journals including A Public Space and Words Without Borders, and in two anthologies. His poems have also appeared in Chinese, Polish, and Serbian, amongst many others.
He has translated the likes of Auden and Cummings into Russian, as well as other work from France, Ukraine and others. A selection of poems and translations by Kuzmin were published in Russia (his first collection) as It’s Fine to Be Alive, winning him a Moscow Count award for the best debut poetry collection.
Prizes and awards
| 2008 | The Moscow Count Prize |
| 2002 | Andrei Beliy Prize of Merit in Literature |
Books
- It's Fine to Be Alive, 2008
Foreign Publications
In English