Boris Khersonsky - biography and creativity

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Boris Khersonsky - Ukrainian poet, translator, publicist. He was born in Chernivtsi in 1950, on November 28th. The author writes primarily in Russian and is also a clinical psychiatrist and psychologist.

Relatives

Poet Boris Khersonsky was born into a family of doctors. The grandfather of our hero, Robert Aronovich, is one of the founders of child psychoneurology in Odessa. In the post-revolutionary years, this man, using the pseudonym Ro, published two books with satirical poems "Beep" and "All Odessa in epigrams." The father of our hero, Grigory Robertovich, in turn, released a collection of poems "Students". The mother's family lived in Bessarabia before the war. Later she moved to Chernivtsi. Our hero's father studied there when he returned from the front and became a student at the local medical institute.

Biography

Kherson Boris spent his childhood in Starobelsk. His parents got there by distribution. Became a student of the Ivano-Frankivsk Medical Institute. Later he changed the university - he transferred to the medical institute of Odessa. He received the position of a psychoneurologist in the Ovidiopol district. Was a psychiatrist and psychologistRegional Psychiatric Hospital of Odessa. During perestroika, Khersonsky Boris Grigoryevich worked in one of the city newspapers. Collaborated with various emigrant media. Since 1996, he has been working at the Department of Psychology at the Odessa National University. From 1999 to 2015, the activities of our hero were also purely scientific. During this period he was head of the Department of Clinical Psychology. Author of 6 monographs. They are dedicated to psychiatry and psychology. Separately, it should be noted the work "Psychodiagnostics of thinking", written in 2003. Our hero is a candidate of medical sciences. Head of the Union of Psychotherapists of Ukraine. In the 1990s, he actively acted as a publicist and journalist in the city press.

Creativity

Above, we talked about how Boris Khersonsky began his activities. His poems began to appear in the 60s. In 1970-1980, our hero became one of the brightest figures representing unofficial poetry in Odessa. He was a member of the social movement samizdat. At the same time, he acted not only as an author, but also as a distributor of other illegal literature. His poems were distributed in the usual way for that time - in typewritten copies. In the early nineties, books began to be published, unofficially, but without prohibitions. The appearance of works in the emigrant Russian-language press occurred in the second half of the eighties. The first book that was legally published was published in 1993 and is called The Eighth Share. Then there were “Out of the fence”, “Family archive”, Post Printum, “There and then”, “Scroll”,“Draw a little man”, “Verbs of the past tense”. Also, our hero published transcriptions of biblical texts, collecting them in the “Book of Praises” and a collection called “Poetry at the turn of the two Testaments. Psalms and Odes of Solomon. The author was published on the pages of the magazines Homo Legends, October, Novy Mir, Khreshchatyk, Znamya, Arion.

It can be considered that the most significant work of our hero is the "Family Archive". In this book, from biographical poems-essays, as a result, a canvas of life is formed, as well as the disappearance of Jews in the southern part of Ukraine in the twentieth century. Samizdat book appeared in 1995 in Odessa. By 2006, "Family Archive" - the first collection of our hero, was published in Russia. This work was published by the publishing house "New Literary Review", including it in the series "Poetry of the Russian Diaspora".

"Building site" - the second full-fledged book of our hero. It was also published by the above-mentioned publishing house in 2008. “Outside the fence” is a collection of essays and poems that appeared in 2008. It was published by the Nauka publishing house in the Russian Gulliver series. In 2009, a book en titled "Marble Sheet" was published. It includes poems that were written in the fall of 2008 in Italy. Soon the book "Spirituals" appeared. In 2010, the UFO publishing house published the work “Until it got dark”, the foreword to it was written by Irina Rodnyanskaya. In 2012, the book "Still Someone" was published. This work was published by the publishing house "Spadshina-Integral" and consisted of poems.

Civil position

KhersonBoris has consistently come forward as a supporter of Ukrainian independence. He is opposed to pressure on the country from Russia. The author claims that because of this he was subjected to hostility, as well as bullying during the Orange Revolution. He also noted that in 2014 and 2015 he received death threats several times. According to the poet, he would have left Odessa if the city had been occupied. On the day when our hero made the above statement, there was a terrorist attack near his house.

Recognition

Boris Khersonsky is a laureate of the fourth and fifth Voloshin competitions, as well as a diploma winner of the seventh and eighth. He was also awarded an award at the Kyiv Lavra festival. Boris Khersonsky received a special award "Moscow Account". Our hero is a laureate of a scholarship from the I. Brodsky Foundation. He also received an award from the Novy Mir magazine. He became the winner of the poetry award established by the publication Anthologia. The book "Family Archive" was shortlisted for the Andrei Bely Prize. The work "Spirituals" was also noted. This work is shortlisted for Book of the Year. The book "Family Archive" was awarded a special Austrian award - Literaris. The work “Before it got dark” was also awarded. The book also received a Russian award.

Family

Boris Khersonsky is married to a poet named Lyudmila. The niece of our hero, Elena Akhterskaya, is an American writer, born in 1985.