Dream. After Dream - Kudryavitsky, Anatoly
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'Dream. After Dream' is a semi-documentary novella by the Moscow-born and Dublin-based poet and novelist Anatoly Kudryavitsky. An Irishman from Mayo takes an interest in Communist ideas and in 1921 moves to Russia. In 1940, the year the USSR signs the treaty with Nazi Germany, all the Irishmen living in Russia are arrested, imprisoned and soon die in the GULAG, except for the hero of the novella who survives and makes an attempt to return to Ireland. Also included in the book are two of the author's shorter novellas, a short story and a selection of his acclaimed prose poems.

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Produktbeschreibung
'Dream. After Dream' is a semi-documentary novella by the Moscow-born and Dublin-based poet and novelist Anatoly Kudryavitsky. An Irishman from Mayo takes an interest in Communist ideas and in 1921 moves to Russia. In 1940, the year the USSR signs the treaty with Nazi Germany, all the Irishmen living in Russia are arrested, imprisoned and soon die in the GULAG, except for the hero of the novella who survives and makes an attempt to return to Ireland. Also included in the book are two of the author's shorter novellas, a short story and a selection of his acclaimed prose poems.
Autorenporträt
Born in Moscow, Anatoly Kudryavitsky is the grandson of an Irishman who was imprisoned in Stalin's GULAG. Educated at the Moscow Medical Academy, he holds a PhD in Biomedical Science. In Russia, he worked as a researcher, as a magazine editor, and as a literary translator. Blacklisted in the Soviet Union until 1988, he was first published openly in 1989. Since then, he has authored three novels, The Case-Book of Inspector Mylls (Zakharov Books, Moscow, 2008), The Flying Dutchman (Text Publishers, Moscow, 2013) and Shadowplay on a Sunless Day (Text Publishers, Moscow, 2014), as well as a book of his novellas and short stories, A Parade of Mirror and Reflections (Text Publishers, Moscow, 2017). He has also published seven collections of his poetry in Russian and three collections of his English-language poems, the latest being Horizon (Red Moon Press, 2016). He edited A Night in the Nabokov Hotel (Dedalus Press, 2006), an anthology of contemporary Russian poetry in his translations into English, and Coloured Handprints (Dedalus Press, 2015), an anthology of contemporary German-language poetry in his translations into English. He has also translated English-language classics into Russian and Polish and Swedish poetry into English. Kudryavitsky has won many international awards for his English-language haiku, and is regarded as one of the most prominent European haiku poets. He lives in Co. Dublin, Ireland, and works as the editor of SurVision, an international magazine for Neo-Surrealist poetry, and Shamrock, an international haiku magazine. He has given readings and spoken at many European literary festivals. His poems and stories have been translated into fourteen languages.