Anatoly Kudryavitsky
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Anatoly Kudryavitsky （Russian: Анатолий Исаевич Кудрявицкий; born 17 August 1954） is a Russian-Irish novelist, poet, editor and literary translator.
Kudryavitsky's father, Jerzy, was a Ukrainian-born Polish naval officer who served in the Russian fleet based in the Far East, while his mother Nelly Kitterick,
a music teacher, was the daughter of an Irishman from County Mayo who ended up in one of Joseph Stalin's concentration camps.
His aunt Isabel Kitterick, also a music teacher as well as a musicologist, published a critically acclaimed book titled Chopin's Lyrical Diary.
Having lived in Russia and Germany, Kudryavitsky now lives in South Dublin.
Educated at Moscow Medical University, Kudryavitsky later studied Irish history and culture.
In the 1980s he worked as a researcher in immunology, a journalist, and a literary translator.
He started writing poetry in 1978, but under the communists was not permitted to publish his work openly.
American poet Leonard Schwartz described him as "a samizdat poet who had to put up with a good deal of abuse during the communist period and who has only been able to publish openly in recent years. In his 'poetics of silence' the words count as much for the silence they make possible
as for what they say themselves" Since 1989, Kudryavitsky has published a number of short stories and seven collections of his Russian poems, the most recent being In the White Flame of Waiting （1994）, The Field of Eternal Stories （1996）, Graffiti （1998）, and Visitors' Book （2001）.
He has also published translations from English into Russian of such authors and poets as John Galsworthy （Jocelyn）, William Somerset Maugham （Up at the Villa）, Stephen Leacock （...