Simon Patlis
Author Profiles

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Simon Patlis
San Diego, USA

Simon grew up in the former Soviet Union (first in Tashkent, later in Kishinev.) He moved to the US in 1991. Mathematician by education, he works as an IT consultant. He has been writing poetry since childhood and translates English and Russian poetry (English to Russian, Russian to English). He is the author of Duda, published in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, in 2006. His work was published in The Notebook. A Collection of Contemporary Russian Poetry in North America (Общая Тетрадь: Moscow, 2007), as well as in other collections and almanacs of poetry published over the years in Russia and California.

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