Pavel Grushko (b. 1931) is a Russian poet, translator, essayist, and playwright. He is the author of four books of poetry and several original plays, including the first Russian rock opera, “The Star and Death of Joaquin Murieta”. Most importantly, in the course of his career, he translated around 60 books of poetry, plays and short fiction from Spanish and English into Russian, among them works by L. Borges, F. Garcia Lorca, Luis de Góngora, Edgar Lee Masters, W. H. Auden, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, William C. Williams, Marianne Moore, Langston Hughes, and many others. His works are widely anthologized and published in Russia, Mexico, and Spain. Many of his poems were translated into Spanish, both by others and by himself. For his original poetry, he was awarded the Gold Medal at the Alberico Sala poetry contest in Besana-Brianza, Italy (1994).