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Vyacheslav Kupriyanov
Kupriyanov is a Russian poet, novelist and short story writer. He has played a central role in developing vers libre tradition in Russia since the 1970s, and translated the poetry of W. Whitman, R. M. Rilke and many other European poets. His awards include European Literature Prize, 1988, Yugoslavia; Branko-Radicevic Prize, 2006, Serbia; Bunin Prize, 2010, Mayakovsky Prize, 2011, and Poet of the Year 2012, Russia; Prize ‘European Atlas of Poetry’, Serbia; Naji Naaman literary prize, Japan, 2018; Sahitto International Award for Literature, 2021, Bangladesh; and Golden Key of Smederevo, Serbia, 2021. Kupriyanov’s collections of vers libre include Echo (1989), Better Times (2003) and Contradictions (2019). Translations of his poems were published in the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation; In Anyone’s Tongue (Forest Books, 1992 [parallel text in Russian and English]); Duet of Iron (Junpa Books, Kyoto, 2018 [English–Japanese]); Fuer den unbekannten Feigling (Pop-Verlag, 2021 [Russian–German]); Hur Man Blir en Giraff (Faethon, 2022).