Boris Dralyuk (born in 1982) is a Ukrainian-American writer, editor and translator. He obtained his high school degree from Fairfax High School and his PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from

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. He teaches in the English Department at the

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. He has taught

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at his

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and at the

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, Scotland. He was executive editor and editor-in-chief of the ''

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'' from 2016 to 2022 and the managing editor of ''

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'' from 2016 to 2022. In 2024 he was named the editor-in-chief of '' Nimrod International Journal.'' His writings have appeared in numerous outlets, including ''

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'', etc. A specialist in the history of

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, he has written introductions to the reissued works of Paul Cain and Raoul Whitfield. In 2022 Dralyuk published his debut poetry collection, ''My Hollywood and Other Poems'', with Paul Dry Books. It was reviewed positively by Anahid Neressian in ''

'', who remarked that an "air of upbeat sorrow permeates ''My Hollywood''. It’s an émigré mood, defined by the conviction that things could always be worse." In 2020 he received the inaugural Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing from the ''

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''. In 2022 he received the inaugural Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize from the National Book Critics Circle for his translation of Andrey Kurkov’s '' Grey Bees''. In 2024 he received a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Bibliography

Translations

* Polina Barskova – ''The Zoo in Winter: Selected Poems'' ( Melville House, 2011) * Dariusz Sośnicki – ''The World Shared'' ( BOA Editions, 2014) * Oleg Woolf – ''Bessarabian Stamps: Stories'' (Phoneme Media, 2015) *

Isaac Babel Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel ( – 27 January 1940) was a Soviet writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator. He is best known as the author of ''Red Cavalry'' and ''Odessa Stories'', and has been acclaimed as "the greatest prose write ...

– '' Red Cavalry'' ( Pushkin Press, 2015) *

– ''

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'' (Pushkin Press, 2016) * Andrey Kurkov – ''The Bickford Fuse'' ( MacLehose Press, 2016) * Lev Ozerov – ''Portraits Without Frames'' ( NYRB Classics, 2018) *

Mikhail Zoshchenko Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko (; – 22 July 1958) was a Soviet and Russian writer and satirist. Biography Zoshchenko was born in 1894, in Saint Petersburg, Russia, according to his 1953 autobiography. Other sources suggest that he was born i ...

– ''Sentimental Tales'' (

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, 2018) *

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– ''Lives and Deaths: Essential Stories'' (Pushkin Press, 2019) * Igor Golomstock – ''A Ransomed Dissident: A Life in Art Under the Soviets'' (I.B. Tauris, 2019, with Sara Jolly) * Maxim Osipov – ''Rock, Paper, Scissors, and Other Stories'' (NYRB Classics, 2019, with Alex Fleming and Anne Marie Jackson) * Andrey Kurkov – '' Grey Bees'' (MacLehose Press, 2020; Deep Vellum, 2022) *

Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin () was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.Basker, Michael. Pushkin and Romanticism. In Ferber, Michael, ed., ''A Companion to European Romanticism''. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. He is consid ...

– ''Peter the Great's African: Experiments in Prose'' (NYRB Classics, 2022, with

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and Elizabeth Chandler) *

– ''Of Sunshine and Bedbugs: Essential Stories'' (Pushkin Press, 2016) * Maxim Osipov – ''Kilometer 101'' (NYRB Classic, 2022, with Nicolas Pasternak Slater and Alex Fleming) * Taras Prokhasko and Marjana Prokhansko – ''Who Will Make the Snow?'' (Elsewhere Editions, 2023, with Jennifer Croft) * Andrey Kurkov – ''The Silver Bone'' (MacLehose Press, 2024; HarperVia, 2024) * Andrey Kurkov – ''The Stolen Heart'' (MacLehose Press, 2025; HarperVia, 2025)

Poetry

* ''My Hollywood and Other Poems'' (Paul Dry Books, 2022)

Monograph

* ''Western Crime Fiction Goes East: The Russian Pinkerton Craze 1907-1934'' (

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, 2012)

Anthologies

* ''1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution'' (Pushkin Press, 2016) * ''The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry'' (Penguin Classics, 2015, co-edited with Robert Chandler and Irina Mashinski)

References

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