Konstantin Aleksandrovich Kedrov (; 12 November 1942 – 16 April 2025) was a Russian poet, philosopher and literary critic.Ушел из жизни поэт и философ Константин Кедров
He was a member of the

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(1989). Candidate of philological sciences,

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of the Institute for Literature. Сhief editor of «Journal of Poets» literary magazine. Literary critic and literary historian. Author of the term metametaphor (1984) and of the philosophical theory of metacode. From 1991, he worked for several years as a literary columnist for the

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newspaper. After a split in the editorial board of Izvestia, he and editor Igor Golembiovsky moved to the newspaper

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. According to the mass media and bookmakers’ offices, in the years of 2003—2005, he was nominated for

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(2013). Kedrov died on 16 April 2025, at the age of 82.

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