Vitaly Lekhtsier
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Vitaly Lekhtsier
Samara, Russia

Vitaly Lekhtsier is a poet, literary critic, co-editor of the literary and analytical portal “Circus Olympus+TV” (2011-2022), and social researcher. He is the author of seven books of poetry (the eighth one is forthcoming), and seven monographs published in Russia and Lithuania. Winner of the Andrei Bely Prize (2019). His poems have been translated into English, and his scholarly research has been translated into Spanish and Bulgarian. He works at the S.P. Korolev National Research University in Samara.

Bookshelf
100 pms war
by Julia Nemirovskaya, editor

This excellent anthology, compiled and edited by Julia Nemirovskaya, showcases poems by Russian (and Russian-speaking) poets who express their absolute rejection of Russia’s war against Ukraine.

DesyatyjKrug
by David Gay

The documentary novel “The Tenth Circle” tells the story of the life, struggle, and destruction of the Minsk ghetto, one of the largest in the Soviet Union and Europe during World War II. (Russian edition)

1. Dislocation
by Julia Nemirovskaya and Anna Krushelnitskaya, editors

This collection focuses on the war between Russia and Ukraine as seen by Russophone poets from all over the world.

Videos
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EastWest Literary Forum Bilingual Poetry & Prose Reading. July 13, 2025.
Length: 2 hrs. 08 min