Boris Grigorievich Khersonskiy

Boris Grigorievich Khersonskiy
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Born	Boris Grigorievich Khersonskiy, 2009 (1950-11-28) November 28, 1950 Chernivtsi, Ukrainian SSR
💼 Occupation	writer clinical psychologist translation psychiatrist poet

Boris Grigorievich Khersonskiy (born November 28, 1950, Chernivtsi, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian poet, publicist and translator, writing mainly in Russian, as well as a clinical psychologist and psychiatrist. Candidate of Medical Sciences.

Biography

Born into a family of doctors; grandfather - Robert (Riven) Aronovich (1896-1954) was one of the founders of children's psychoneurology in Odessa, and in the post-revolutionary years under the pseudonym Ro released two books of satirical poetry - "All Odessa in epigrams" and "Whistle" (both - 1919). Collection of poems "Students" published in 1949 and the father of Kherson Grigory Robertovich (the book of his selected poems "The Return" came out in 2004). The mother's family lived in Bessarabia before the war, after the war settled in Chernivtsi, where, returning from the front, he studied at the medical institute and his father.

In childhood, he lived in Starobelsk, where on distribution his parents got. Studied at Ivano-Frankivsk Medical Institute, graduated from the Odessa Medical Institute. He worked as a neuropsychiatrist in the Ovidiopol district of the Odessa region, then - a psychologist and psychiatrist in the Odessa regional psychiatric hospital. During the years of perestroika, he also worked in a city newspaper, collaborated in the émigré media.

Since 1996 he has been working at the Department of Psychology Odessa National University, 1999—2015 Head of the Department of Clinical Psychology. Author of six monographs on psychology and psychiatry, including "Psychodiagnostics of Thinking" (2003). Head of the Union of Psychologists and Psychotherapists of Ukraine (since 2011). In the 1990s, he also actively performed in the city press as a journalist and publicist.

Publications

Boris Grigorievich Khersonsky.
Presentation of the book "Draw a little man", November 2004 Book salon "Treasure Island", Odessa, st. Lanzheronovskaya, 2.

First poetry publications in the late 1960s. In the 1970s-1980s, Boris Khersonskiy - one of the most striking figures in the unofficial poetry of Odessa, participant in the social movement samizdat not only as an author, but also as a distributor of other illegal books. His poems were circulated in the then usual way - in typewritten copies. In the early 90s, books begin to come out, also unofficially - without ISBN, but already without prohibitions. Publications in the Russian-speaking émigré press from the second half of the eighties. The first book published legally (with ISBN) - "The Eighth Part" (1993). Further "Out of the Fence" (1996), "Family Archive" (1997), "Post Printum" (1998), "There and Then" (2000), "Scroll" (2002), "Draw a little man" (2005), "Verbs of the past tense" as well as transcriptions of biblical texts, collected in the "Book of Praises" (1994) and the collection “Poetry at the turn of two testaments. Psalms and Odes of Solomon"(1996). Also published in magazines "Arion", "Znamya", "Khreshchatyk", "New world", "October", "Homo Legens" and others.

The most significant literary work of Khersonskiy is the book "Family Archive", in which from separate biographical poems-sketches the epic canvas of life is formed and disappearances of Jews in southern Ukraine throughout the 20th century. A self-published book was published in Odessa in 1995. In 2006, "Family Archive" became the first collection of Kherson, published in Russia - by the publishing house "New Literary Review" (UFO), in the series "Poetry of the Russian Diaspora" (editor - Dmitry Kuzmin). The second book of the poet, published by this publishing house was "Building site" (2008). Collection of poems and essays "Out of the Fence" was published by the publishing house "Science" in 2008 (Russian Gulliver series). In 2009 the book "Marble Leaf" was published (M., ARGO-RISK), which included verses, written in Italy in the fall of 2008, and also the book "Spirituals" (M., UFO). In 2010, the UFO publishing house published a book "Until it got dark" with a foreword by Irina Rodnyanskaya. In 2012, the Kiev publishing house "Spadschina-Integral" published a book of poetry "Still someone", echoing the previous book, published in Moscow. The same publishing house published a book of the poet's prose - "Well of madness". In the same year at the publishing house AILUROS (New York) a joint book by Boris Kherson was published and Sergiy Kruglov “Nathan. In spirit and truth", and in the Moscow publishing house "Art House Media" book "New naturalist". In 2014 St. Petersburg Publishing House of Ivan Limbakh released a compilation "Missa in tempore belli. Mass during the war", in 2015 at the Kharkiv publishing house "Folio" the book "If not a rainbow" was published, and at the publishing house "Meridian Czernowitz", associated with the eponymous international poetry festival, - the book "KOSMOSNASH". In addition, in 2015, the Kiev publishing house "Spirit and Litera" published a book by Kherson "Open Diary", based on his Facebook posts and including both poems, and recordings on socio-political topics; in the same year, this book was awarded a special prize named after Yuri Shevelev (awarded under the auspices of the Ukrainian PEN Center).

Boris Kherson's poems were translated into Ukrainian, Georgian, Bulgarian, English, Finnish, Italian, Dutch and German. In 2010 at the Wieser Verlag, the German translation of the book "Family Archive" was published; in 2014 the book was reissued in a bilingual Russian-German version, at the same time a bilingual Russian-Dutch edition was published at the Amsterdam publishing house Pegasus; in 2016, the translation of "Family Archive" into Ukrainian was released, performed by Marianna Kiyanovskaya together with the author. In turn, Kherson published a number of translations of modern Ukrainian and Belarusian poetry (in particular, Sergey Zhadan and Maria Martysevich) into Russian. Auto translations into Ukrainian and poems of recent years, for the first time in the creative biography of the poet written immediately in Ukrainian, compiled the book "Stalin was not there" (Ukrainian "Stalina not bulo"; 2018), which was edited by Yuri Vinnichuk.

Civil position

Khersonskiy consistently speaks as a supporter of Ukrainian independence, opponent of pressure on one's country from Russia and a tough opponent of the pro-Russian forces inside Ukraine. According to him, in this regard, he was subjected to bullying and hostility during the Orange Revolution, and after the next revolution, during the Russian military aggression against Ukraine in 2014-2015 repeatedly received death threats. An interview was published on February 10, 2015, in which Kherson said, that I would not stay in Odessa, if the city was occupied. On the evening of the same day, a terrorist attack took place near his house Regarding various riots and provocations in the city of Kherson wrote:

I am almost convinced that the events in Odessa are a kind of performance, the main spectator of which sits at a considerable distance from the events in a comfortable box. The main benefit here is received by the mass media of the Russian Federation. They want a picture for their news programs. They need to maintain in the viewer a sense of constant tension in the region, the presence of pro-Russian resistance. Not the one that is openly manifested in the blogosphere, but the one whose “partisans” will take up arms on occasion. This viewer does not need blood yet.

• After graduating from medical school, he destroyed his Komsomol documents.
• From 1972 to 1982 - participated in the dissident movement, mainly as a distributor of samizdat. Also involved in monitoring psychiatric repression. In 1982, after many hours of interrogation, the KGB ceased activity, because he realized that all his actions are known to the KGB.
• Since 1986 - a member of the Odessa Memorial.
• In 1986 he began a short-term work in the Odessa People's Rukh, member of the regional Provod. But he left the Rukh after anti-Semitic statements and articles that the Odessa Rukh "is increasingly called a synagogue". At the same time, several more activists of Jewish origin left the movement.
• In 1988-1996 he was a deputy of the Odessa City Council. He was in opposition to the executive branch.
• Since 1986 he regularly collaborated with Odessa newspapers and the émigré press, radio "Liberty" and "New Russian Word" (NY), "Russian Thought" (Paris).
• In 1991-2002 - head of the department "Society" in the newspaper "Odessa Bulletin", after the defeat of the editorial board - "Regional Bulletin".
• Supported both Maidans (2004, 2014).
• In June 2018, he supported the open letter of cultural figures, politicians and human rights defenders calling on world leaders defend a prisoner in Russia Ukrainian producer Oleg Sentsov and other political prisoners.

Awards

• Laureate of the 4th and 5th International Voloshinsky competition (2006, 2007), diploma-recipient of the 7th and 8th International Voloshin Competition, laureate of the festival "Kiev Lavra" (2008), special prize "Moscow Account" (2007), laureate of the scholarship of the fund. I. Brodsky (2008).
• Laureate of the Poetry Prize "Anthologia" magazine "New World" (2008). Short list of the Andrey Bely Prize for the book "Family Archive". Shortlist "Book of the Year" in the category "Best collection of poetry" for the book Spirituals (2009).
• Special Prize "Literaris" (Austria) for the book "Family Archives" (2010). Russian Prize (second degree diploma) for the book "Until it got dark" (2011).

Family

His wife is the poet Lyudmila Kherson. Niece - American writer Elena Akhterskaya (born 1985).

External links

• Boris Khersonskiy on the site "New Map of Russian Literature".
• Boris Khersonskiy in the "Journal Room".
• Boris Khersonskiy on the site "Vek Perevoda".
• borkhers - Boris Kherson in "Live Journal".
• Boris Khersonskiy official page on the social network Facebook.
• Boris Khersonskiy on the site of "Masters of Psychology".
• Bible verses in the Odessa anthology "Deribasovskaya - Richelievskaya", No. 12 2003.
• Efim Yaroshevsky and his "Provincial novel-s" presented by Boris Khersonskiy.
• Boris Kherson became a fellow of the Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fund. "New Russian Word", New York, August 16, 2008. Interview with Vadim Yarmolinets.
• Boris Kherson's performance in two parts (part 1, part 2) on Torf TV.

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