Boris Dralyuk

Poet, Translator

Tulsa, OK
Oklahoma US
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Author's Bio

Boris Dralyuk is the author of My Hollywood and Other Poems (Paul Dry, 2022), editor of 1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution (2016), co-editor of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (2015), and translator of volumes by Isaac Babel, Andrey Kurkov, Leo Tolstoy, and other authors. His poems have appeared in The New York Review of BooksThe Hudson ReviewRaritan QuarterlyBest American Poetry 2023, and elsewhere, and his criticism and translations have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books, and The New Yorker, among other venues. Formerly editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books, he is currently a Tulsa Artist Fellow, editor-in-chief of Nimrod, and professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Tulsa.

Publications & Prizes

Poetry

Book:
My Hollywood and Other Poems (Paul Dry Books, 2022)

Translation

Books:
The Silver Bone by Andrey Kurkov, translated from the Russian (Harper Collins, 2024)
;
Who Will Make the Snow? by Taras and Marjana Prokhasko, translated from the Ukrainian (Elsewhere Editions, 2023)
;
Of Sunshine and Bedbugs: Essential Stories by Isaac Babel, translated from the Russian (Pushkin Press, 2022)
;
Lives and Deaths: Essential Stories by Leo Tolstoy, translated from the Russian (Pushkin Press, 2019)
;
Sentimental Tales by Mikhail Zoshchenko, translated from the Russian (Columbia University Press, 2018)
;
1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution by Various, translated from the Russian (Pushkin Press, 2016)
;
Odessa Stories by Isaac Babel, translated from the Russian (Pushkin Press, 2016)
;
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry by Various, translated from the Russian (Penguin, 2015)
;
Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel, translated from the Russian (Pushkin Press, 2014)
Prizes won: 

Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2024); Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize from the National Book Critics Circle (2022); Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing from the Washington Monthly (2020); Joseph Brodsky / Stephen Spender Translation Prize, with Irina Mashinski (2012); Compass Translation Award (2011)

 

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Odesa
Ukraine
Raised in: 
Los Angeles, CA
California
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Last update: Sep 27, 2024