Vladimir Aristov
/Russia
(Russia), born in 1950 in Moscow, is a poet, essayist, prose writer and a holder of Ph. D. in physics and matematics. He began publishing his poetry in 1987 in different lietrary magazines and anthologies. He is the author of six books of poetry, including the book of his selected poetry published in 2008. In 2004 he also published a novel Predskazaniia ochevidza (Prognosis of the eyewitness). His poetry was translated into several foreign languages and awarded two important prizes: Alexei Kruchonyh Prize (1993) and Andrey Bely Prize (2008).