Stanislav Lvovsky, Russia

Born in 1972, Stanislav Lvovsky graduated from the chemistry department of Moscow State University, but discarded this background and moved into advertising and freelance journalism.. Lvovsky has published the poetry collection White noise, (1996), collection of short stories A word on flowers and dogs (2003), mixed collection of poetry, translations and prose poetry Three months of year two (2003), poetry collections Poems about motherland (2004), Camera Rostrum (2008) and novel The half of the sky (in co-authorship with Linor Goralik, 2004). Lvovsky is also the author of numerous translations from English (Vytautas Pliura, Charles Bukovsky, Leonard Cohen, Diane Thiel and others), both published and uncollected. Stanislav Lvovsky is also well known by regular appearances in periodicals (literature critisism and journalism) and a lot of Internet publications. Lvovsky was awarded at the 3rd Festival of Russian Free Verse and is also a laureate of «Moscow count» poetry prize (2003, the best poetry book of the year, published in Moscow). Poems by Stanislav Lvovsky were translated and published in English, French, Chinese, Italian, Georgian and other languages.