Kuvaldin, Yuri Alexandrovich

He was born on November 19, 1946 in Moscow, on the street of October 25th (now and before - Nikolskaya ) in the house No. 17 (formerly “ Slavic Bazaar ”). He studied at a school in the building of which before the revolution the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy was located , where Lomonosov , Trediakovsky , Kantemir studied. He worked as a milling machine operator, taxi driver, assistant cameraman, junior researcher, correspondent for newspapers and magazines. He served in the Soviet Army for three years ( Air Force ). He graduated from the philological faculty of Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. V.I. Lenin . In the early 60s, Yuri Kuvaldin, together with Alexander Chutko, studied at a theater studio at the Moscow Experimental Theater, founded by Vladimir Vysotsky and Gennady Yalovich , which existed until the end of the Khrushchev thaw .

Family

• Wife: Anna Ilnitskaya - Director of the Moscow Art Theater A. P. Chekhov ^[1] .
  • Son: Alexander Trifonov - Russian artist ^[2] .
  • Stepson: Mikhail Butov - Russian writer, laureate of the 1999 Booker Prize in 1999.

Literary activity

Founder and editor-in-chief (1999) of the own magazine Our Street [1]

100 issues were issued on paper without passes (from 1999 to 2008) - in the RSL

further without omissions monthly published in electronic form

Published in magazines:

He spoke with articles, essays, essays, reports, newspaper interviews:

From the review of Fazil Iskander on the book of Mandelstam Street by Yuri Kuvaldin:

“The book of Yuri Kuvaldin“ Mandelstam Street ”(a collection of short stories) is precisely a book in the most exact sense of the word. With the outwardly diverse material of it, we constantly feel its internal unity. Its unity is that in the world of thoughts the author feels at home and wants us to feel the same here, however, we didn’t loose our belts too much, and the author himself is sufficiently tightened with proper hospitality.

In a word, this is real intellectual, or rather, intelligent prose. Kuvaldin does not succumb to either the waves of hasty and transient literary trends, nor the hectic “passing” reasoning about the “good hero”. This to a large extent explains the trust that you have in reading his stories, because in the work of every real writer, not only the system of his moral, philosophical, aesthetic values ​​is important, but also the consistency, perseverance, passion in upholding them.

Kuvaldin has no interest in people of easy fate. He loves to peer at the “complex” heroes, tells the truth about them, for the most part heavy and sad, drawn from life itself, where the positive and negative go hand in hand. With his stories, Yuri Kuvaldin not only reports new things - he, creating himself, learns something new and unexpected for himself, and his style always bears the imprint of this excitement of the discoverer ” ^[3] .

Eugene Rein “Kuvaldin is a special person”: “Of course, Yuri Kuvaldin is a special, exceptional person. And this is what should be noted when speaking about him and his activities. This is an extremely rare case in literature.

All of us, creative, writing people, are selfish.

We all, in general, think about ourselves, and rarely when we find strength to help our comrades, to participate in their fates.

Yuri Kuvaldin in this sense is some remarkable exception. Besides the fact that he, in my opinion, is a very gifted prose writer, I have read many of his works and highly appreciate them ... but he is also the editor-in-chief of Our Street magazine and the publisher.

And I would like to note that he devoted a huge amount of energy and attention to his publishing business, both magazine and book.

Here is his magazine “Our Street” and the publishing house “Book Garden”. ^[3]

Publishing

• Founder and editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine of modern Russian literature “Our Street” (1999) ^[4] .
• The first in the USSR (1988) private publisher. Books published by Yuri Kuvaldin from 1988 to the present (2017) [2]
• Founder and director of the publishing house " Book Garden ". He has published more than 100 books with a total circulation of more than 15 million copies. Among them are books:

Community Activities

• Member of the Union of Writers of Moscow and the Union of Journalists of Moscow .
• Television film “Yuri Kuvaldin. Life in the text ” ^[5] .
• Yuri Kuvaldin denies authorship of M. A. Sholokhov , claiming that Sholokhov was illiterate ^[6] .

TV Films of Yuri Kuvaldin and about Yuri Kuvaldin

"Reality" [3]

"Save forever" [4]

"Excitement" [5]

"Water" [6]

"Pensive sadness" [7]

"String of string" [8]

"Do not forget" [9]

"Here" [10]

“A drop of life in the cup of eternity” (Fazil Iskander) [11]

• "Mandelstam Street", a novel ("The Moscow Worker", 1989)
• The Philosophy of Sorrow, novels and short stories (Novella, 1990)
• “The Hut on the Christmas Tree”, novel and novel (“Soviet Writer”, 1993)
• “So said Zarathustra”, novel (“Book Garden”, 1994)
• Kuvaldin-Kritik, periodical performances (Book Garden, 2003)
• “Homeland,” novels and novel (“Book Garden”, 2004)
• Collected works in 10 volumes (Book Garden, 2006)
• “Lilac”, short stories (“Book Garden”, 2009)
• The Wind, Tales and Stories (Book Garden, 2009)
• “Life in the text”, essay (“Book Garden”, 2010)
• Diary: kuvaldinur.livejournal.com (Book Garden, 2010)
• The Sea of ​​Art, short stories (Book Garden, 2011)
• “Happiness”, a story (“Book Garden”, 2011)
• “Writer's Day”, short story (“Book Garden”, 2011)
• Nachtigall, short stories, essays (Book Garden, 2012)
• "1946", short stories ("Book Garden", 2016) read a book
• Brain, short stories (Book Garden, 2018) read a book

• Yuri Kuvaldin on narod.ru
• Kuvaldin, Yuri Alexandrovich in the " Journal Hall "
• Yuri Kuvaldin in the library of Alexander Belousenko
• Yuri Kuvaldin on the channel "Culture"