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Lev Loseff[1] (Russian: Лев Влади́мирович Ло́сев; birth name Lev Lifshitz; June 15, 1937 – May 6, 2009) was a Russian poet, literary critic, essayist and educator.[2]

Early life and education

The son of poet Vladimir Lifshitz, Loseff was born in Leningrad.[2] He attended Leningrad's famous Saint Peter's School and graduated from the journalism department of the Leningrad State University.[2]

Literary career

Loseff immigrated to the U.S. in 1976.[3] He earned a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Michigan and became a professor of Russian literature at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, a position he held until his death thirty years later.[1] In his later years Loseff was a Russian-language radio personality and a prolific author, writing both poetry and non-fiction works on Russian literature.

Loseff died on May 6, 2009, in Hanover, NH.[4]

Works

• Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life
• Joseph Brodsky: The Art of a Poem (co-edited with Valentina Polukhina)
• Iosif Brodskii: Trudy i dni (co-edited with Petr Vail)
• On the Beneficence of Censorship: Aesopian Language in Modern Russian Literature
• Poetika Brodskogo
• Brodsky's Poetics and Aesthetics (co-edited with Valentina Polukhina)
• A Sense of Place: Tsarskoe Selo and Its Poets (co-edited with Barry Scherr)
• Eight collections of poetry and prose in Russian.[1]

References

External links

• http://www.vavilon.ru/texts/prim/losev0.html
• http://www.rvb.ru/np/publication/02comm/10/07losev.htm
• Photographs of Loseff
• Book review of Loseff's biography of Joseph Brodsky.
• Interview with Loseff in Ogonyok magazine.
• http://levloseff.blogspot.com/
• "Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life by Lev Loseff" in Quarterly Conversation

На других языках

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- [en] Lev Loseff

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[ru] Лосев, Лев Владимирович

Лев Влади́мирович Ло́сев (настоящая фамилия Ли́фшиц; 15 июня 1937, Ленинград, СССР — 6 мая 2009, Хановер, США) — русский поэт, литературовед и эссеист, педагог.

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