Boris Dralyuk
Boris Dralyuk holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literature from UCLA. He is the translator of Leo Tolstoy’s How Much Does a Man Need (Calypso Editions, 2010), A Slap in the Face: Four Russian Futurist Manifestos (Insert Blanc Press, 2013), and Anton Chekhov’s The Little Trilogy (Calypso Editions, 2014). He is co-translator of Polina Barskova’s The Zoe in Winter: Selected Poems (Melville House, 2011) and The World Shared (BOA Editions, 2014) Dralyuk is also the co-editor of Anthology of Russian Poetry from Pushkin to Brodsky (Penguin Classics, 2015). He received First Prize in the 2011 Compass Translation Award competition, and, with Irina Mashinski, First Prize in the 2012 Joseph Brodsky/Stephen Spender Translation Prize competition.
