Konstantin Kedrov

Konstantin Kedrov (Russian: Константи́н Алекса́ндрович Ке́дров; nickname — Kedrov-Tchelitchew. November 12, 1942, Rybinsk, USSR) — russian poet, philosopher, literary critic and literary historian. Author of the term metametaphor (1984) and of the philosophical theory of metacode. Candidate of philological sciences, Doctor of philosophy, Professor of the Institute for LiteratureGuarant-InfoCentre. Konstantin KedrovActa Universitatis Lodziensis. Epstein's 'Metabole' and Kedrov's 'Metametaphor' as a poetic-artistic revision of metaphor: about two key terms of metarealism. Сhief editor of «Journal of Poets» literary magazine. Establisher of the DOOS literary group and author of the abbreviation DOOS (Dobrovolnoe Obshchestvo Okhrany Strekoz / Voluntary Society for Protecting the Dragonflies) (1984). 
Member of the Soviet Writers’ Union (1989). Member of the Executive Committee of the Russian PEN Club. Member of the International Noblemen Union (via Chelishchev noble kin — Registration Certificate # 98 of Nov. 13, 2008). Winner of the Korean Manhae Prize (2013)POET KONSTANTIN KEDROV BECOMES FIRST RUSSIAN TO WIN PRESTIGIOUS MANHAE PRIZE.
==Biography==
Born in the family of theatre director Aleksandr Berdichevsky (1910, Tyumen — September 30, 1991, Moscow) and actress Nadezhda Yumatova (1917, Dubrovka — April 30, 1991 — the sister of the surrealist painter Pavel Tchelitchev). The actors of the city theatre of Rybinsk, Yaroslavl region, where they stayed in evacuation till the year of 1945. In the year of 1958, in «Komsomolets Tatarii» Weekly, published the first selection from Kedrov’s poetry.
Since 1960, Konstantin Kedrov resides in Moscow. He studied for one year at the Moscow State University named after Mikhail Lomonosov, Faculty of Journalism (1961—1962), and, following his dismissal, moved to the Kazan State University. Upon graduating from the Faculty of History & Philology of the Kazan State University named after Vladimir Ulyanov-Lenin, he returned to Moscow, and in the year of 1968, entered a PhD program at the Institute for Literature under the Writers’ Union.
In the year of 1973, Kedrov defended his PhD dissertation on the topic “Epical basis of Russian novels of the first half of the 19th century” at the Moscow State University. 
In the years of 1974–1986, Kedrov was a senior lecturer at the Chair of history of Russian literature, Institute for Literature named after Maksim Gorky. There, Kedrov attracted a few student poets interested in Russian vanguard poetry, including Alexei Parshchikov, Ilya Kutik, Aleksandr Yeryomenko, et al (Metametaphorists). In 1983, Kedrov defined the general principle of their poetry as a metametaphorAlbena Lutzkanova-Vassileva, The Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry: Reference, Trauma, and History, 2014, ISBN 978-1-62892-188-5.Metametaphor is a metaphor where every single thing is a universe. Such a metaphor did not exist before. Before, they made comparisons. A poet is like a sun, or a river, or a tram. A man himself is all he writes of. Here, we have no tree separate from land, no land separate from heaven, no heaven separate from space, and no space separate from man. It offers an eyesight of a man of Universe.Русский ПЕН-центр / Константин Александрович Кедров.
The same year, Kedrov wrote his long poem «Computer of Love» that, according to Stanislav Dzhimbinov, “can be viewed as an art manifest of metametaphorism, i. e., of a concentrated total metaphor, compared to which an ordinary metaphor would seem rather partial and indecisive”. A year later, Kedrov offered a new manifest establishing the DOOS (Dobrovolnoe Obshchestvo Okhrany Strekoz / Voluntary Society for Protecting the Dragonflies) literary group.poetryexperiment.com
In the year of 1986 Kedrov ceased lecturing at the Institute for Literature and took upon literary freelancing. According to the papers that Kedrov requested from archives of the Russian Federal Counterintelligence Agency in the year of 1996, previously they launched a personal case against him titled “Forester” (on suspicion of anti-Soviet propaganda and agitation) that was deleted in August of the year of 1990Лесниченко Г. «Новый мир» и КГБ // КГБ: вчера, сегодня, завтра. 3-й сборник. — М.: Знак-СП, общественный фонд «Гласность», 1994. — С. 176.. 
Subsequently, in the years of 1986 through 1991, Kedrov was unemployed. That time, he had to sell the pictures and graphics of his grand-uncle Pavel Tchelitchew inherited in the year of 1972Konstantin Kedrov: biography, works, scientific work. In the year of 2008, Russian Kultura (Culture) TV Channel demonstarted a documentary about Pavel Chelishchev “An Uneven-Winged Angel” (script by Kedrov and Nina Zaretskaya, shooting locations included Moscow and New York).
Since the year of 1988, Kedrov has participated in international poetical events, his first trip abroad was to attend a Soviet vanguard art fest in the city of Imatra (Finland) and in France (Tarascon, 1989; Paris, 1991; Paris, Sorbonne, 2002)Konstantin Kedrov: Créativité Et Biographie Du PoèteРусская народная линия. Константин Кедров. In the year of 1989, Sovetsky Pisatel Publishing House published Kedrov’s monograph Poetical Cosmos that, upon a vast literary and mythological basis, concentrated upon the concept of metametaphor and a philosophical idea of metacode. 
In the years of 1991—1998, Kedrov was a literary reviewer at Izvestiya DailyАнтология поэзии «Строфы века». — М.-Мн.: «Полифакт», 1995. — С. 878.
Those years, Kedrov's pieces in «Isvestiya» Daily included: Natalia Solzhenitsina’s first interview for Russian press media, interview with Billy Graham, America's # 1 preacher and ghostly father of three US Presidents, several articles against death penalty, interview with Russian writer Anatoly Pristavkin, future head of the Commission for Clemency under Russian President, interview with Galina Starovoytova on human rights and international law standards, articles on previously banned and semi-banned writers and philosophers (Vladimir Nabokov, Pavel Florensky, Velimir Khlebnikov, Daniil Andreev), and on prose writers Valeria Narbikova, Yegor Radov and underground poets (Genrikh Sapgir, Igor Kholin, Aleksandr Yeryomenko, Akeksey Parshchikov, Nina Iskrenko, Gennady Aygi, Alexei Khvostenko) who were then unfamiliar to a wide audience. Following a split in Izvestiya Daily editorial board, Kedrov joined Chief Editor Igor Golembiovsky and moved to Novye Izvestiya Daily.
In the year of 1995, Kedrov and some other Russian PEN Club members (Andrey Voznesensky, Genrikh Sapgir, Igor Kholin, Aleksandr Tkachenko) established Gazeta POezia (POetry Gazette) (featuring the total of 12 issues) that in the year of 2000 was transformed into ″Zhurnal POetov″ (Poets’ Magazine). In the year of 2007, 20 issues were republished in one volume as “PO Anthology”.
In the year of 1996, at Institute for Philosophy under the Russian Academy of Sciences, Kedrov defended his PhD dissertation in the form of a scientific report on the topic “Ethical & Antropogenic Principle in Culture”.
March 21, 1999, Kedrov joined the first Russian World Poetry Day celebration at the State Literature Museum (Petrovka Straat, Moscow), and in the year of 2000, he headlined a similar event at the Moscow Taganka Theatre involving the theatre director Yury Lyubimov, poets Andrey Voznesensky, Yelena Katsuba, Alina Vitukhnovskaya, Mikhail Buznik, and actor Valery Zolotukhin.
In connection with the first Poetry Day in Russia, Kedrov received a grateful letter from the Russian Federation Committee for UNESCOGuarant-InfoCentre: Konstantin KedrovНИИ механики МГУ. Интеллектуальная Система Тематического Исследования НАукометрических данных.
Since 2001 Konstantin Kedrov has been the dean of the Academy of Poets and Philosophers of the Natalia Nesterova University.
According to the mass media and bookmakers’ offices, in the years of 2003—2005, he was nominated for Nobel prize for literature2003년 노벨문학상 후보자로 주목 받기도NTV (Russia): Россиянин может получить Нобелевскую премию по литературе / A Russian can receive the Nobel Prize in LiteratureВ Швеции объявят лауреата Нобелевской премии по литературе. Среди номинантов — трое россиян / Sweden will announce the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Three Russians are among the nomineesRBK Group Объявлен лауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе (13 october's 2005) / The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature has been announced (13 october's 2005).
==Awards==
*	1999 — International David Burlyuk the Father of Russian Futurism Otmetina (Award)International mark of the name of the father of Russian Futurism David Burliuk.
*	2003 — GRAMMy.ru Prize, Annual Poetry Event nomination for his poem «Computer of Love»KM.RU Образование. Константин Кедров стал лауреатом премии Грэмми. Ру за 2003 г.
*	2005 — Twice GRAMMY.ru Laureate, Annual Poetry Event nomination.
*	2005 — «Deti Ra» Magazine Prize, Drama nomination.
*	2007 — Literaturnaya Rossiya Weekly Annual Laureate for his poem Fialkiada.
*	2008 — Diploma of contributing to a Book Fair under the Agnon Biblic Project (Israel).
*	2009 — Aleksandr Griboedov Prize “For his Loyal Service to National Belles-Lettres” (Resolution of Moscow City Branch and Translators’ Section of the Russian Writers’ Union of November 17, 2009).
*	2009 — Medal of Internet Community under the Literary Club and Board of Directors of the Internet Poets’ Union.
*	2013 — Manhae Prize (Republic of Korea)일면스님 등 2013 만해대상 수상자 9명 선정.
*	2014 — The Dominant Prize (Munich)Dominante-Preis 2014 (Munich)
*	2015 — «Deti Ra» Magazine Prize, Poetry nomination.
*	2016 — Gold Prize of LiFFt Eurasian and All-Russian Literary Fests.
*	2017 — Annual Leonardo Prize.
*	2018 — Pushkin PrizeКонстантин Кедров — лауреат Пушкинской премии 2018 / Konstantin Kedrov — winner of the Pushkin Prize 2018.
*	2020 — Gran-prix, Poetry nomination, Moscow Literary Prize.
*	2023 — Medal “For his Input into Promoting the World Literature” (Resolution of Steering Committee of the LiFFt International Fest at Cairo International Book Fair).
*	2023 — International People’s Diplomacy Commonwealth Medal “For Contributing to Racial Harmony and Special Achievements in International Activity”.
==Major Works Books==
*	Poetical Cosmos. — Moscow: Sovetsky Pisatel Publishing House, 1989. — 20 000 copies. ISBN 5-265-00956-6
*	Computer of Love. — Moscow: Khudozhestvennaya Literatura Publishing House, 1990.
*	Assertions of Denies. — Moscow: Center Publishing House, 1991
*	Verfliem. — Moscow: DOOS Publishers, 1992
*	Vrutselet. — Moscow: DOOS Publishers, 1993
*	Gamma tel Gamleta. — Moscow: Yelena Pakhomova Publishers, 1994
*	ILI On ili Ada ili Ilion ili Iliada. (Readings in Vadim Sidur Museum Series). — Moscow, 1995
*	Ulysses and Nausicaa. — Moscow: Yelena Pakhomova Publishers, 1998
*	Metametaphor. — Moscow: DOOS Publishers, 1999.
*	Metametaphor Encyclopedia. — Moscow: DOOS Publishers, 2000.
*	Parallel Worlds. — Moscow: AiF Print Publishers, 2001. 
*	Insideout. — Moscow: Mysl Publishing House, 2001. 
*	Angelic Poetics. — Moscow: Natalia Nesterova University Publishing House, 2001.
*	Beyond Apokalypse. — Moscow: AiF Print Publishers, 2002. 
*	ILI (Or) (Collected Works. Poetry). — Moscow: Mysl Publishing House, 2002.
*	Sam-ist-dat. — Moscow: Ruslan Elinin LIA Publishing House, 2003
*	Metacode. — Moscow: AiF Print Publishers, 2005.
*	Philosophy of Literature. — Moscow: Khudozhestvennaya Literatura Publishing House, 2009. — 200 p. — ISBN 978-5-280-03454-9
*	Conductor of Silence: Poems and long poems. — Moscow: Khudozhestvennaya Literatura Publishing House, 2009. — ISBN 978-5-280-03456-3
*	(Co-authored with Margarita Al') Assertion of Deny. — Moscow: Ruslan Elinin LIA Publishing House, 2009.
*	Nevesta Lokhmataya Svetom: Poems, Long Poems. — Moscow: Aleksandr Gritsenko Producer Center Publishers, 2014. — 5000 copies. (Classics and Contemporaries Series) ISBN 978-5-9906032-0-2
*	Voices. Documentary Biographical Mysteria. Moscow: DOOS Publishers, 2016. — ISBN 978-5-906568-08-3
*	Glass Robot: Poems and Long poems / Foreword by Andrey Voznesensky. — Moscow: LIFFT Publishers, 2018. — 500 copies. (Golden LiFFt. Russia's Writers Series) ISBN 978-5-604-01615-2
*	Partant: Book of Poems. — Moscow: Yevgeny Stepanov’s Publishing House, 2018 (Avangrandy Book Series).
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