Matvei Yankelevich
Translator
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Russian
Matvei Yankelevich has translated Elena Guro, Daniil Kharms, Osip Mandelstam, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Alexander Vvedensky, as well as several contemporary Russian-language poets. He has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the National Endowment for Humanities, and was a co-recipient (with Eugene Ostashevsky) of the 2014 National Translation Award. He teaches translation and book arts at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.