Viktor Krivulin

Viktor Borisovich Krivulin (; 9 July 1944 – 17 March 2001) was a Russian poet, novelist and essayist.

Biography Krivulin graduated from the faculty of philology from Leningrad State University. He opted for independent cultural activity and worked mostly as a watchman, editor of short living leaflets of sanitary education while heading some important institutions of Russian uncensored literature of 1970s, such as 37 and Severnaya Pochta samizdat magazines among others.

In 1978 Krivulin became the first winner of Andrei Bely independent literary prize and then for more than ten years he participated in running this award. For many years, his poetry circulated exclusively in samizdat (Leningrad journals such as Chasy, 37 and Obvodnyi kanal), as well as the émigré journals Grani ("Facets"), Tret’ia volna ("The Third Wave"), Vestnik RKhD ("Herald of the Russian Christian Movement") and Kontinent.

Collections in Russian

1981: Stikhi (Poems), Paris: Rhythm. 1988: Stikhi (Poems), Paris, Leningrad: Beseda 1990: Obraschenie (Appeal), Leningrad: Sovetsky Pisatel 1993: Konzert po Zayavkam (Concert on request), Saint-Petersburg: Publishing house of the Fund of Russian Poetry 1994: Predgranichie: Teksty 1993-94 (Frontier: Texts of 1993–94), Saint-Petersburg: Borey Art 1998: Requiem, Moscow: ARGO-RISK. 1998: Kupanie v iordani (Bathing in the Jordan River), Saint-Petersburg, Pushkin Fund 2001: Stikhi yubileinogo goda (Poems of the jubilee year), Moscow: OGI 2001: Stikhi posle stikhov (Poems after poems), Saint-Petersburg: Peterburgsky pisatel