April 5, 11:30 – 12:30 Meeting the poet Dmitry Vedenyapin

Dmitry Vedenyapin was born in Moscow. Poet, essayist, translator of poetry and prose. Author of twelve books of poetry: Pokrov, 1993, Grass and Smoke, 2002, Between the Wardrobe and the Sky, 2009, What Does the Ray Mean, 2010, The Glass Laughs, the Cigarette Cries, 2015, Home Performances, 2015, The Faith of a Mushroom, 2017, The Birdie, 2018, Dad Talks on the Phone, 2020, What Paris Is — Take It Higher, 2020, For Nothing, 2022, There Is Intrigue, 2023. Laureate of several literary awards, including the Moscow Account Grand Prize (2009), the Joseph Brodsky Foundation Scholarship Prize (2011), and the Poetry Prize (2019). Leads a series of online meetings "A Man in Other People" at the Boris Pasternak House Museum in Peredelkino. Has lived in Paris for the past five years.