Tomas Venclova

About the Author:

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Tomas Venclova
Vilnus, Lithuania

Tomas Venclova, born on September 11, 1937, in Klaipeda, Lithuania, is a Lithuanian poet, translator, literary critic, essayist, and dissident. One of the founders of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group (founded December 1, 1976). In 1977, he left the Soviet Union at the invitation of the university of Berkeley and later worked at Ohio University. Thomas Venclova’s poems have been translated into many languages, including Russian. In 2018, Venclova returned to Vilnius.

Bookshelf
by Ilya Perelmuter (editor)

Launched in 2012, “Four Centuries” is an international electronic magazine of Russian poetry in translation.

by Marina Eskin (Eskina)

“The Lingering Twilight” (“Сумерки”) is Marina Eskin’s fifth book of poems. In Russian.

by Nina Kossman

A collection of moving, often funny vignettes about a childhood spent in the Soviet Union.

“Vivid picture of life behind the Iron Curtain.” —Booklist
“This unique book will serve to promote discussions of freedom.” —School Library Journal

by Ian Probstein

A new collection of poems by Ian Probstein. (In Russian)

by William Conelly

Young readers will love this delightful work of children’s verse by poet William Conelly, accompanied by Nadia Kossman’s imaginative, evocative illustrations.

by Maria Galina

A book of poems by Maria Galina, put together and completed exactly one day before the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is Galina’s seventh book of poems. With translations by Anna Halberstadt and Ainsley Morse.

Videos
Three Questions. A Documentary by Vita Shtivelman
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Poetry Reading in Honor of Brodsky’s 81st Birthday
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