Sergey Gandlevsky, will give a reading on Tuesday, Nov. 11 at 7 p.m. in the Levis Browsing Room (Dinand Library). An underground poet in the Soviet Union during the 1970s and 1980s, Gandlevsky has emerged as a major figure on the Russian literary scene.
Winner of both the Little Booker Prize and the Anti-Booker Prize for his poetry and prose, he is the author of four books of poems, a memoir, a book of essays, and a novel. His books are consistently short-listed for the top Russian literary prizes.
Philip Metres, a 1992 graduate of Holy Cross and a Watson fellow, has translated Gandlevsky’s work for English speaking readers in A Kindred Orphanhood: Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky. Metres own poems are forthcoming in a chapbook, Poems for Non-Native Speakers, from Kent State University Press.
Poetry Reading by Sergey Gandlevsky
With translator Philip Metres '92
Read Time
1 Minute
