Elena Fanailova reads with Brodsky Fellows

MARIA BRODSKY, President of the Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellowship Fund is pleased to invite you to two readings in Italy this month by current Brodsky Fund Fellows, Elena Fanailova and Sergei GandlevskyCa’ Foscari Zattere, Cultural Flow Zone Tesa 1withMaria BrodskySilvia Burini (Provost, Centro Studi sulle Arti della Russia, Università Ca’ Foscari)Alessandro Niero (Professor, Università di Bologna)Center for the Study of Russian Arts, Ca’ Foscari, VeneziaElena Fanailova (b. 1962) is a poet and journalist. Her poems have been published in leading literary magazines in Russia and abroad. She is the author of five books of poetry and has received the Andrei Bely Prize in 1999 and the Moscow Count Prize in 2003. In 2008, a book of her poetry entitled The Russian Version, translated into English by Stephanie Sandler and Genya Turovskaya, was published in the United States by Ugly Duckling Presse; in 2010 it won the Best Translated Book Award for Poetry.Sergei Gandlevsky has published a number of books of poetry, a memoir, and a book of essays in Russian, winning both the Little Booker Prize and the Anti-Booker Prize in 1996 for his poetry and prose. A Kindred Orphanhood, his selected poems translated into English by Philip Metres, was published by Zephyr Press in 2003.