Yuryev, Oleg Alexandrovich

Father, candidate of art criticism Alexander Yulievich Yuryev (1933-1994), was a teacher of violin mastery at the conservatory ^[3] , mother - Isabella Natanovna Yuryeva (born 1934) - English in high school. Parents were divorced, raised by their mother. He graduated from the Leningrad Financial and Economic Institute . He attended the translation workshop of Elga Lvovna Lineckaya , translated from English and Spanish. One of the founders of the literary group Luggage Storage , curator of the website of the same name on the Internet. He wrote poetry from the 1970s, prose from the beginning of the 1980s, plays from 1984. The first publication in the open press was in 1982 . He was published in the magazines Twilight , Bulletin of New Literature , Volga , Theater , Ural , Star , Banner , October , New Coast , Critical Mass , New Literary Review ”, “ Air ” ,“ Homo Legens ”and others. From 1990 to 1994, he systematically collaborated with Radio Liberty , was one of the leading authors of the literary program“ Over the Barriers ”.

Since 1991, he lived with his wife and son in Germany ( Frankfurt ). The works of O. A. Yuryev were translated into German (seven books of prose, numerous publications in periodicals and theatrical productions), French, English, Czech and other languages; his plays were staged in Germany, Switzerland, France, Poland, the Czech Republic, Canada, etc. countries - both in the languages ​​of these countries and local Russian troupes.

He taught (a course on the history of Russian poetry of the 20th century) at the University of Illinois in Urban and Champaign , USA ( 2009 ).

Wife - poet and prose writer Olga Martynova .

• Poems about the heavenly set (M .: Prometheus, 1989 , as part of the convolute edition of the Luggage Storage)
• Two short plays (L .: Leningrad Committee of Writers, 1990 )
• Walking with a hollow moon (St. Petersburg: Left-luggage office, 1993 , prose, nomination for the Booker Prize )
• Frankfurt Bull (M.: Publishing House bro. Zakhariadi, 1996 , prose)
• Jidyatin Peninsula (M. - Jerusalem: Bridges of Culture / Gesharim, 2000 , novel, nomination for the Booker Prize ), ISBN 5-93273-041-2
• Selected Poems and Choirs (M .: New Literary Review, 2004 , shortlist of the Andrei Bely Prize , 2004), ISBN 5-86793-317-2
• The New Golem, or the War of the Old Ones and Children (M. - Jerusalem: Bridges of Culture / Gesharim, 2004, novel), ISBN 5-93273-167-2
• Frankfurt evening shot (Moscow: New Publishing House, 2007 , verses), ISBN 978-5-98379-081-0
• Circumstances of places (poem) (M .: ARGO-RISK ; Book Review, 2010. - Series: Air: Small Prose), ISBN 5-86856-205-4 - Russian version of the book “Von Orten. Ein Poem ”, Frankfurt am Main 2010 (see the list of books in German)
• Poems and other poems (Moscow: New Publishing House, 2011 , poems), ISBN 978-5-98379-145-9
• Filled Gapes : A Book of Russian Poetry ^{[4] [5] [6]} (M .: New Literary Review , 2013 ) ISBN 978-5-4448-0048-5
• About the Motherland: Poems, choirs and songs 2010-2013 (Moscow: Book Review ( ARGO-RISK ), 2013 , shortlist of the Andrei Bely Prize , 2013) ISBN 978-5-86856-239-6
• Writer as a companion for survival: Articles, essays and essays on literature and more. SPb .: Ivan Limbakh Publishing House , 2014 ISBN 978-5-89059-206-4
• Unknown letters: Ya. M. R. Lents - to N. M. Karamzin; I. G. Pryzhov - to F. M. Dostoevsky; L.I. Dobychin - K.I. Chukovsky. SPb .: Ivan Limbakh Publishing House , 2014 ISBN 978-5-89059-221-7
• Tales of Sen Koshkin. SPb .: DETGIZ, 2014 ISBN 978-5-8452-0499-8
• Poems and choirs of the last time / Oleg Yuriev; entry Art. M. Galina . - M .: New literary review, 2016 . - 256 s. (Series: New Poetry, ISBN 978-5-4448-0524-4

• Leningrader Geschichten (edition solitude, Stuttgart 1994 ), ISBN 3-929085-12-7 - incomplete translation (ten stories out of twenty-four) of the book “Walking under the Full Moon”.
• Frankfurter Stier (Edition Pixis, München - Berlin 1996 ), ISBN 3-928943-28-X ; 2. Aufl. (Christian Pixis, München 2001 ), ISBN 3-927915-28-9 - translation of the book The Frankfurt Bull.
• Halbinsel Judatin (Volk und Welt, Berlin 1999 ), ISBN 3-353-01128-5 - translation of the novel The Jidyatin Peninsula.
• Spaziergänge unter dem Hohlmond (Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2002 ), ISBN 3-518-12240-1 is a new, complete translation of the book Walking in the Full Moon.
• Der neue Golem oder Der Krieg der Kinder und Greise (Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2003 ), ISBN 3-518-41479-8 - translation of the novel “The New Golem, or the War of the Old Ones and Children”.
• Zwanzig Facetten der russischen Natur (Insel, Frankfurt am Main - Leipzig 2008 ), ISBN 3-458-19307-3 - articles and essays written in German, and the chapter “Twenty Faces of Russian Nature” from the novel “The New Golem, or War” old people and children ”(translated).
• Die russische Fracht (Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2009 ), ISBN 3-518-42076-3 - translation of the novel “Vineta”.
• Von Orten. Ein Poem (Gutleut Verlag, Frankfurt am Main & Weimar 2010 ), ISBN 978-3-936826-69-2 - German version of the small prose book “Circumstances of places” (poem). M., 2010 (see the list of books in Russian).
• Zwischen den Tischen. Bernstein-Verlag, Gebr. Remmel, Bonn 2011 . (Olga Martynova und Oleg Jurjew im essayistischen Dialog), ISBN 978-3-939431-73-2
• Halbinsel Judatin. Jung und Jung Verlag, Salzburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-99027-053-0 - a new edition of the novel “The Jidyatin Peninsula” translated into German, verified, partially revised and structurally modified by the author
• Von Orten. Ein Poem (Gutleut Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015 ), 2. Auflage. ISBN 978-3-936826-76-0
• Von Zeiten. Ein Poem (Gutleut Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015 ). ISBN 978-3-936826-77-7
• Unbekannte Briefe. Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-957322-33-3

• In zwei Spiegeln. Gedichte Russisch - Deutsch. Jung und Jung Verlag, Salzburg 2012. (aus dem Russischen von Elke Erb, Gregor Laschen und Olga Martynova, Daniel Jurjew und Gregor Laschen), ISBN 978-3-99027-022-6

Audiobooks

• Die russische Fracht (Zurich: Kein & Aber, 2011, read by Harry Rovolt), German, ISBN 978-3-0369-1267-7

• Miriam, a play in the genre of folk comedy , 1984 . First production - 1988 (Leningrad, studio scene of the Actor’s House). Translated into German, English, French, Polish and Ukrainian.
• A small pogrom in a station buffet, a small Jewish tragedy , 1984 . First production - 1992 (Moscow, Album Theater-Studio). Translated into German, French, Polish and Czech.
• Comic novels for the shadow theater, 1987 , consists of the one-act plays The Comedy of Alkov, The History of Ghosts and The Extravaganza of the Bombing, which were also set separately, most often The Comedy of Alkov. German translation.
• Song of Songs, a performance in one phenomenon , 1989 , revised and expanded significantly in 2001 . Translated into German under the name "Meine Schwester Sulamith oder Kinder Jerusalems". Premiere: Potsdam, Theater. Hans Otto, 1994 .
• The end of the world according to Moscow time (which no one noticed), a function pin for the scene . 1993 , 2001 . German translation.

Radio plays

• Petersburger Zwillinge / Petersburg Twins (about Leonid Aronzon and Joseph Brodsky , together with Olga Martynova, in it. Language). Hessian Radio, 2011.
• Versuch über die kasachische Steppe. Lieder aus Stalins Lagern / "Experience about the Kazakh steppe. Songs from the Stalinist camps", together with Olga Martynova, on it. lang Hessian Radio, 2014.

The first publication of the plays: “The Comedy of Alkov” in the journal “Theater Life” (No. 10, 1988). "Miriam" and "Song of Songs" publ. in the author’s book “Two Short Pieces (L., 1990). Miriam”, “A Little Pogrom in the Station Buffet” and “Comic Novels for the Shadow Theater” - in the collection “Eight Bad Pieces” (Moscow: Soyuzteatr, 1990 ). “The end of the world in Moscow time” was published in the Israeli magazine “22” (No. 96).

In 2010 , he was awarded the Hilda Domin Prize : according to the jury, Yuryev’s works “combine Gogol’s grotesque humor with the courage of the St. Petersburg avant-garde” ^[7] .

Novella by O. A. Yuryev “An unknown letter from the writer L. Dobychin to Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky” was awarded the Prize of the Zvezda magazine for the best publications of 2012 . Published in the journal Zvezda (St. Petersburg), No. 7, 2012.

In 2013, Oleg Yuryev was awarded the New World magazine award (Moscow) for the best publications of the year (Odnoklassniki, article about Vs. Petrov and Pavel Zaltsman , No. 6, 2013, and Pinocchio of Russian Poetry, or Sergei Neldyhen in the Country of Fools No. 9, 2013).

Laureate of the Poetry Award Distinction ( 2014 , [1] ).

Laureate of the ANTHOLOGIA Poetry Prize of the New World magazine (Moscow) for the best poetic books of 2016 ("Poems and Choirs of the Last Time", Moscow: UFO, 2016)

• Oleg Yuryev on the site " A New Map of Russian Literature "
• Oleg Yuryev in the " Journal Hall "
• Oleg Yuriev on the website “Century of Translation”
• Yuryev, Oleg Alexandrovich in the electronic archive of the Andrei Bely Center
• Oleg Yuryev's blog on the NKH website
• An article about Oleg Yuriev in the reference publication Russian Writers in Germany
• Oleg Yuriev's page on the Babylon website
• Oleg Yuriev's page on the site New Luggage Storage
• Interview with V. Shubinsky with Oleg Yuryev, UFO, No. 66, 2004 (Russian)
• Interview L. Goralik with Oleg Yuryev, Air, No. 1, 2010 (Russian)
• The German press about Oleg Yuryev’s books (annotations) (German)
• Review of the book "The peninsula of Zhidyatin" in the journal "People of the Book in the World of Books" (Russian)
• Review of the book “The New Golem” in the magazine “People of the Book in the World of Books” (Russian)
• Review of the novel “Vineta” in the magazine “People of the Book in the World of Books” (Russian)
• Shubinsky V. Part or whole? Jews and Jewry in the books of Oleg Yuryev // People of the Book in the world of books. 2008. No. 77 (Russian)
• Interview with the jury of the prize "Difference" with Oleg Yuryev
• Shubinsky V. Farewell to Oleg Yuryev // People of the Book in the world of books. 2018. No 135 (Russian)
• Lisitsyn Z. The Jews will come to do the pogrom // People of the Book in the world of books. 2019. No. 140 ] (Russian)