Ostanin Boris Vladimirovich

Ostanin Boris Vladimirovich

Genus. in 1946 in the family of a military pilot. Since 1961 in Leningrad. Graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of Leningrad University. He worked as a watchman, elevator operator, fireman, etc. Since 2007, he has been working as a gas boiler operator. Since 1976, co-editor (together with Boris Ivanov) of the samizdat magazine “Clocks”. One of the founders (1978) of the Andrei Bely Prize and to this day a member of its Committee. In 1992-1997. editor-in-chief of the Chernyshev Publishing House (St. Petersburg), later collaborated as an editor and consultant with the Amphora publishing house. He published in samizdat (under various pseudonyms) and, after 1990, in periodicals a number of critical articles about the latest Russian literature. Author of two books of aphorisms. He translated from English and French the prose and dramaturgy of A. Camus, E. Ionesco, J. Genet, C. McCullers, C. Castaneda and others, as well as (together with V. Kucheryavkin) “The Tibetan Book of the Dead” and the monograph by V. Markov "History of Russian Futurism". Died 09/22/2023.