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Matvei Yankelevich

Matvei Yankelevich (c) Sara Renee Marshall (© Sara Renee Marshall) © Sara Renee Marshall

(publisher) born in Moscow in 1973 and moved to New York City when he was four years old. Today he lives in Brooklyn. His works include the fragmentary novel “Boris by the Sea” (2009), a collected prose work “Alpha Donut: The Selected Shorter Works of Matvei Yankelevich” (2012) and several popular books, such as “Writing in the Margin” (2001) and the epic poem “The Present Work” (2006). Yankelevich is well known as a literary translator. In addition, he is the co-founder and co-executive director of Ugly Duckling Press, curates the Eastern European Poets Series and is editor of the magazine 6×6.

He held lectures about PR, translation and Russian literature at Columbia University, Colorado College, Huter College, Wesleyan University and Naropa´s Summer Writing Programme. He is a member of the Writing Faculty at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.

Boris by the Sea. Roman. Octopus Books, London 2009.

 Alpha Donut: Selected Shorter Works of Matvei Yankelevich. Collected prose. United Artists Books, New York 2012.

 Today I wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms. Translated from Russian into English. Ardis Books, Hampshire 2007.

 Alexander Vvedensky: An Invitation for Me to Think. Translated from Russian into English. NYRB, New York 2013.

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