Aleksey Davidovich Alekhin (born June 13, 1949 , Moscow ) - Russian poet , critic and essayist , editor . Chief editor of the magazine "Arion" (1994-2019).
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| Date of Birth | June 13, 1949 (70 years) |
| Place of Birth | Moscow , USSR |
| Citizenship |  USSR →  Russia |
| Occupation | poet , editor , literary critic , essist |
| Language of Works | Russian |
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Biography
He graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University , from 1969 to 1990 he worked in the journal " Soviet Union ". He traveled around the country a lot, in the early 90s he spent about a year and a half in China (1990–1991), the impressions and thoughts about which made up the book Letters from Celestial (1995).
In 1994, he founded and permanently headed the “fat” poetic magazine “ Arion ”, the first in the history of Russian literature, which for many years remained the only specialized poetic journal in Russia.
The first underground poetry collection "The Nature of Things" was released in 1983, and the first publication of poems in the official press took place in the 1987th. Since 1994, Alekhin's poems and lyrical prose have been published in all the leading Russian literary journals. In subsequent years, he published nine books of poems and poetic prose, including “Kite Notes” (2005), “Psalm for Pismashki” (2006), “Naked Eyes” (2010), “Flight of the Beetle” (2011), “Temporary place ”(2014), as well as a book for children“ I'll tell you about Pyatilap ”(2015). [one]
Alekhin’s poetry is based on free verse , often subjected to additional metrization and saturated with alliteration . Alekhine's poetry is characterized by a spectacular metaphor . Frequent themes of Alekhin - travel impressions (in a wide range: from the Russian North to Central Asia), unexpected moments of exotic life and foreign culture. Alexey Alekhin is one of the creators and leading masters of modern Russian free verse. His poetics are characterized by a focus on visually perceived verbal images and attention to the details of being combined with the paradoxical thinking.
Poems by A. D. Alekhin were translated into German , English , French , Lithuanian , Georgian , Italian , Chinese , Azeri , Portuguese , Arabic , Hebrew , Polish , Romanian , Bulgarian , Macedonian and other languages.
From the mid-1990s, Alyokhin also regularly speaks with critical articles and essays on contemporary poetry , in which he holds the idea of the deadlock of avant-garde tendencies in Russian verse, reflects on the problems of poetic creativity, in particular the Russian vers libre, and the difficulties of becoming young poets. These works were also translated into many languages of the world.
Proceedings
- Nature of things. - M. (40 Зкз.), 1983. ( It was released by samizdat )
- Contrary to the foreshadowing of the birds. - M .: Publishing house of Rusanov, 1994.
- Poems. - M .: Siddur Museum, 1994.
- On Sunday Europe. - M .: RIK Rusanova, 1997.
- Pictograms. - M .: RIK Rusanova, 1999.
- A kite note. - M .: Time , 2005.
- Psalm for writing. - M .: OGI , 2006.
- Bare eyes: not only prose. - M .: AST : Astrel , 2010.
- Flying beetle. - M .: Astrel: Avanta +, 2011.
- Temporary location. - M .: Time, 2014.
- I'll tell you about Pyatilap. - M .: Klever-Media-Group, 2015.
Awards
- Petropol Award ( 2004 )
- New World Magazine Prize ( 2013 )
- Diploma of poetry award "Antologia" ( 2017 )
Notes
Links
- Alexey Alekhin's page on the Babylon website
- Alekhin, Alexey Davidovich in the “ Journal Hall ”
- Publisher "Time": Alekhin Alexey Davidovich
- Images of Alexei Alekhin on the site "Persons of Russian Literature"