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 has taught

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at his alma mater and at the

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, Scotland. His writings have appeared in numerous outlets such as ''

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'', etc. He is chief editor of the ''

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'' and the managing editor of '' Cardinal Points.'' A specialist in the history of

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, he has written introductions to the reissued works of 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 ''

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'', 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."

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 (russian: Исаак Эммануилович Бабель, p=ˈbabʲɪlʲ; – 27 January 1940) was a Russian writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator. He is best known as the author of '' Red Cavalry' ...

– '' Red Cavalry'' (

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, 2015) * Isaac Babel – '' Odessa Stories'' (Pushkin Press, 2016) * Lev Ozerov – ''Portraits Without Frames'' (

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, 2018) * Mikhail Zoshchenko – ''Sentimental Tales'' (

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, 2018) *

Leo Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-refor ...

– ''Lives and Deaths: Essential Stories'' (Pushkin Press, 2019) * Igor Golomstock – ''A Ransomed Dissident: A Life in Art Under the Soviets'' (I.B. Tauris, 2019) * Maxim Osipov – ''Rock, Paper, Scissors, and Other Stories'' (NYRB Classics, 2019, with Alex Fleming and Anne Marie Jackson) *

Andrey Kurkov Andrey Yuryevich Kurkov ( uk, Андрій Юрійович Курков; russian: Андре́й Ю́рьевич Курко́в; born 23 April 1961 in Leningrad, USSR) is a Ukrainian author and public intellectual who writes in Russian. He is t ...

– ''

Grey Bees ''Grey Bees'' is a novel by Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov. Originally published in 2018 in Kurkov’s native Russian, it was translated by Boris Dralyuk and published in English in 2020 (by MacLehose Press, UK) and 2022 (by Deep Vellum, USA). ...

'' ( MacLehose Press, 2020; Deep Vellum, 2022) *

Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...

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

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and Elizabeth Chandler) * Maxim Osipov – ''Kilometer 101'' (NYRB Classic, 2022, with Nicolas Pasternak Slater and Alex Fleming)

Poetry

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

Monograph

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

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)

References

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