Oleg Ibrahimoff

Oleg Ibrahimoff was a French general practitioner, poet, and writer. He was born on June 11, 1926, in Constantinople, and died on January 13, 2001, in Longjumeau ( Essonne ).
==Biography==
===Origins===
Oleg Ibrahimoff comes from a family of Russian-Tatar origin. His father, a former Commissar of Education of the Crimean Tatar Autonomous Socialist Republic, emigrated to France in 1928 after learning of his death sentence in the Soviet Union. The family settled in Boulogne-Billancourt, a town known for its Russian community. In 1953, he married Janine Mitaud, a poet, with whom he had a daughter, Claude, who became a visual artist. After completing a medical course, he opened a general practice in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois in 1960. Alongside his work as a general practitioner, he was interested in several medical specialties and worked as medical editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Panorama du Médecin. A keen sportsman, he also enjoys activities such as gliding and diving.
===Literary activities===
Throughout his life, Oleg Ibrahimoff wrote in French. He was a prolific author, having published more than twenty books. His first collections of poetry were published in 1950, such as Banlieue (Suburb) by the publisher René Rougerie, with whom he collaborated for seventeen years. This was followed by We are the barbarians, Éditions Janus directed by Pierre-Jean Oswald, Le cours de la vie (In the Course of Life), Editions La Presse à Bras by Vincente Monteiro in 1953, as well as other collections from Guy Chambelland at Éditions La Coïncidence. Oleg Ibrahimoff is also the author of an epic tale Attila dans l'herbe verte - Rituel (Attila through the green grass - Ritual), published by the Éditions Soleil Natal in May 1996, and of a novel, La vie et la mort sur une petite place (Life and Death in a Small Square), under the pseudonym of Jean-Louis Dino, published, with offprints, in the collection Metamorphoses in 1973. Several artists have illustrated his collections of poetry, including Jacques Spacagna, Raymond Pagès, Jean Casazza ( Gian Carlo Casazza ), Françoise Dufay, Livia, Akos Szabo, Ania Staritsky, Kevin Hurley.
The book Le Prince Oleg et autres dits (Prince Oleg and other tales), published in 1976, is accompanied by a preface by Jean Rousselot, who describes it as "one of the most authentic epics of the French language" and adds: " Withdrawn much further than another in yourself, you have known how to find these accents which I cannot be mistaken about.» The work also includes an afterword in the form of a letter from André Breton, highlighting the ability of poems to «refract towards you rays of all affective source».
Serge Brindeau has included Oleg Ibrahimoff in La Poésie contemporaine de langue française depuis 1945 and Robert Sabatier cites him in tome 3 of his Histoire de la poésie française (Métamorphoses et Modernité).
===The Metamorphoses Magazine - 1966-1974===
Oleg Ibrahimoff is the founder of the poetry magazine Métamorphoses. This quarterly review "published for the account and pleasure of Oleg Ibrahimoff and his friends" will first appear with the publisher René Rougerie (from December 1966 to March 1970), then with other printers. The poets Dominique Autié, Alain Duault, Sylvestre Clancier, Alain Frontier, Gil Jouanard, Janine Mitaud, the sculptor Louis Molinari and others will meet regularly at the home of Oleg Ibrahimoff and Janine Mitaud in Sainte-Geneviève des Bois to work on its writing and administration.
One could find texts by Michel Butor, Pierre Albert-Birot, Joë Bousquet, Saint-Pol Roux, Marcel Béalu, Jean Rousselot, and Brigitte Level, as well as by Velimir Khlebnikov, Cesar Pavese, Ilarie Voronca, Guennadi Aïgui (published both in French and Chuvash), and young poets such as Jean-Philippe Salabreuil, among others.
Metamorphoses also published "Alpha Messages", texts dealing with original and varied themes such as Experimental theatre in Hungary by Árpád Ajtony, Literature considered in its relations with divinity by Alain Frontier, or on music by Bernard Picavet.
Various artists illustrated it, including Patrice Jeener, author of mathematical compositions, and the painter and poster artist Raymond Pagès. Metamorphoses explored new poetic avenues, which notably passed through advertising and image, including works and collages by Oleg Ibrahimoff. Pierre Peyrolles designed what was the model for his cover from 1972. The 27th issue will mark the end of this adventure in 1974.
==Works==
* Paris l’an deux fois neuf (1950)
* Banlieue (1953)
* Le Cours de la vie (1953)
* Nous sommes les barbares (1955)
* Conquêtes de la ville (1955)
* Pierre à pierre Paris (1958)
* Le Prince Oleg (1963)
* L’Égal de la terreur (1966)
* Incinérer l’hiver (1967)
* La Prise du pouvoir (1970)
* Univers minuscule (1970)
* Dieu, œuvre posthume (1973)
* Richesse des ruines (1974)
* La vie et la mort sur une petite place (1974)
* L’Opposition - La Prise du pouvoir II (1974)
* Le Prince Oleg et autres dits (1976)
* Quid fuit Val Rocas (1977)
* Le Passage du Tartare - Oratorio I (1981)
* Le Passage du Tartare - Oratorio Il (1981)
* Incinérer l’hiver II - Mages (1988)
* La Pentecôte des poètes (1995)
* Attila dans l’herbe verte - Rituel (1996)
* L’Avant-Printemps suivi de Printemps (1999)
* Salut l’artiste - Poèmes (2000)
Category:1926 births
Category:French general practitioners
Category:2001 deaths
Category:People from Constantinople