Ilya Kaminsky
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 47 |
Date of birth | April 18,1977 |
Zodiac sign | Aries |
Born | Odesa |
Ukraine | |
Spouse | Katie Farris |
Job | Translator |
Professor | |
Poet | |
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Critic | |
Education | Georgetown University |
UC Hastings College of the Law | |
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco | |
Brighton High School | |
Books | Dancing in Odessa |
Deaf Republic: Poems | |
Musica Humana | |
Dark Elderberry Branch | |
One to Nothing | |
Ilya Kaminsky Greatest Hits | |
Awards | Whiting Awards |
Lannan Literary Fellowship | |
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada | |
Official site | ilyakaminsky.com |
Current partner | Katie Farris |
Languag | English, Russian |
Nationality | American |
Ukrainian | |
Nominations | National Book Award for Poetry |
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ID | 438286 |
Ilya Kaminsky Life story
Ilya Kaminsky is a hard-of-hearing, USSR-born, Ukrainian-Russian-Jewish-American poet, critic, translator and professor. He is best known for his poetry collections Dancing in Odesa and Deaf Republic, which have earned him several awards. In 2019, the BBC named Kaminsky among "12 Artists who changed the world".