Eugene Ostashevsky

Eugene Ostashevsky(born 1968) is a Russian-American writer, poet, translator and professor at New York University.[1]

Early life and education

Ostashevsky was born in Leningrad.[2] He immigrated with his parents to the United States when he was 11 years old. They settled in New York City.[3]

Ostashevsky has a PhD from Stanford University.

Ostashevsky is based in Berlin. He is the father of two daughters.[4]

He speaks English, Russian, German, Turkish, and German Sign Language.[5]

2019 Preis der Stadt Münster für Europäische Poesie, together with the translators Monika Rinck and Uljana Wolf, for the volume of poetry The Pirate Who Doesn't Know the Value of Pi

The Fire Horse: Children’s Poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Osip Mandelstam, and Daniil Kharms NYRB Children, 2017.
Arkadii Dragomoshchenko Endarkenment: Selected Poems Wesleyan University Press, 2014.
Alexander Vvedensky An Invitation for Me to Think NYRB Poets, 2013. Winner of National Translation Award, 2014.
OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism. Poetry, fiction, and drama by Alexander Vvedensky, Daniil Kharms, Nikolai Zabolotsky, Nikolai Oleinikov, Yakov Druskin and Leonid Lipavsky Ed.; trans. with Matvei Yankelevich Northwestern University Press, 2006.
Dmitry Golynko. As It Turned Out Ed.; trans. with Rebecca Bella. Poetry. Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008.

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