In our final event of 2020, translators Simon Schuchat and Ainsley Morse and publisher Matvei Yankelevich speak to us from the US on their latest translation of the work of Dmitri Prigov.

Dmitri Alexandrovich Prigov (1940-2007) was a leading writer of the late Soviet and early post-Soviet era. Almost until the collapse of the Soviet Union, his writing circulated solely in unofficial samizdat editions and overseas publications. He was briefly detained in a Soviet psychiatric hospital in 1986 but released after protests from establishment literary figures. A founder of Moscow Conceptualism, Prigov was a prolific writer in all genres, as well as an accomplished visual artist.

Dmitry Alexandrovich Prigov's 'Soviet Texts', translated by Simon Schuchat and Ainsley Morse, is available from Ugly Duckling Presse now: [ Ссылка ]

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