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Boris Chersonskij
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Boris Khersonsky’s (born 1950 Czernowitz/Ukraine) first poems were already known in Odessa in the late seventies. However due to his non-conformist, anti-system worldview, he was not allowed to publish in official presses. During the seventies and eighties Khersonsky was one of the most important representatives of the Samizdat Movement in Odessa. Samizdat referred to the distribution of alternative, non-conformist, anti-system literature, through unofficial channels; for example copying by hand, typewriter or photocopying, and passing on the copies. It was only after the end of the USSR that he was able to publish with officially recognised publishing houses. Today he counts as one of the best-known poets of Ukraine. His work has received prestigious awards in his own country as well as in Russia. Khersonsky writes in Russian.
Boris Khersonsky studied medicine and works to this day as the Head of the Institute for Clinical Psychology at the University of Odessa. Alongside his many poetic works, he has also published six monographs on psychology and psychiatry.
Boris Khersonsky has also won the ‘Kievskie lavry’ Festival Prize (2008) and is the two-time winner of the international Voloshin Poetry Competition (2006 & 2007), and was nominated for the ‘Andrey Bely’ Literature Prize in 2007. He lives in Odessa.
Publications
Vosmaya dolya, 1993
Post Scriptum, Titul 1998
Svitok, Druk 2002
Semeiny arhiv, NLO 2006
Spirichuels, NLO 2009
Psalmy i Ody Solomona, Folio 2009
Poka ne stemnelo, NLO 2010