{"id":2206,"date":"2016-09-19T12:43:51","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T10:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stadtsprachen.de\/?post_type=stsp_author&p=2206"},"modified":"2026-06-16T17:32:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T15:32:37","slug":"eugene-ostashevsky","status":"publish","type":"eventkrake_artist","link":"https:\/\/stadtsprachen.de\/en\/artist\/eugene-ostashevsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugene Ostashevsky"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eugene<\/span>\u00a0Ostashevsky, born in Leningrad, in 1968, is a Russian-American poet who emigrated to the US with his family in 1979, grew up bilingual and studied comparative literature at Stanford University. In 2005, he published his first book of poems \u201cIterature\u201c, followed by \u201cThe Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza\u201d (2008), and, in 2017, by “The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi,” a book about pirate-parrot relationships. “The Pirate” also came out in a German edition, translated by Uljana Wolf and Monika Rinck. As translator, Ostashevsky works primarily on the Russian avant-garde and experimental poetry tradition, especially Daniil Kharms, Alexander Vvedensky, and other authors of the OBERIU group (GERMAN+Italian: Daniil Charms, Aleksandr Vvedenskij). In 2014, he was guest of the DAAD artists\u2019 program Berlin. Besides pursuing his own writing,\u00a0Eugene<\/span>\u00a0Ostashevsky teaches literature at New York University and in 2016, he was the first Russian-American Siegfried-Unseld visiting professor at the Humboldt University Berlin.<\/p>\n

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