Yelena Katishonok

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Alexandrovna and the family name is Katishonok.
Yelena Katishonok
Yelena Katishonok
Yelena Katishonok
Native name
Елена Александровна Катишонок
BornYelena Alexandrovna Katishonok
1950
Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Riga, Latvia)
Occupationpoet, novelist, translator, literary editor
LanguageRussian
CitizenshipUSSR→United States
Alma materLatvian University
Notable awardsYasnaya Polyana Literary Award (2011)
Russian Booker Prize (shortlist, 2009)

Yelena Alexandrovna Katishonok (Russian: Елена Александровна Катишонок, born 1950) is an American Russian-language writer, author of three books of poetry, six novels and one book of short stories.

Biography

Yelena Katishonok was born in Riga, Latvia (former Latvian SSR). She entered the philological department of Pēteris Stučka Latvian State University (now, the University of Latvia) in 1968. After graduation, she worked in various fields: teaching, editing and translation.

In 1991 emigrated to the USA.[1] Combining teaching with translation activities, she started writing. The first poetry book The Notebook (Russian: «Блокнот») was published in 2005. Next year, in 2006, Yelena Katishonok presented her first novel in the family saga genre Once There Lived an Old Man with His Old Woman (Russian: «Жили-были старик со старухой»). First published in the US by Hermitage Publishers, it was printed in St. Petersburg, Russia by Gelikon Plus [ru] publishing house and won Gogol Prize [ru] for 2009 "for the best work in the genre of love and family novel". The same year the book was on the shortlist of the Russian Booker Prize. Soon Vremya Publishing House [ru], Moscow released the novel and became the main publishing house of the author (more than 35 prints of 8 titles). The novel became a winner of the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award of 2011.

The following novels Counterclockwise (Russian: «Против часовой стрелки»), As a Man Leaves (Russian: «Когда уходит человек»), and Light in a Window (Russian: «Свет в окне») continue the first one, expanding and deepening the storylines. Taken together, they are considered as a sequential cycle of the saga of Ivanovs. Each of these novels was in the long lists of Russian literary award Big Book (2010,[2] 2011,[3] 2015[4]).

At the same time, Yelena Katishonok continued to write poetry. In 2008 M-Graphics Publishing House (Boston, USA) released The Pheasant Hunt (Russian: «Охота на фазана») – a collection of poems, with photographs of Eugene Palagashvili. Next year, in 2009, the new poetry book Order of Words (Russian: «Порядок слов») was published, first in Boston, later in Moscow. The book was included in a shortlist of the Bunin Prize [ru] of 2012.[5]

The novel As a Man Leaves was translated to German (German: Das Haus in der Palissadnaja, Wien: Braumüller, 2014) and Estonian (Estonian: Kui inimene läheb ära, Tallinn: Tõlkebüroo Pangloss OÜ, 2021).

Two latest novels of Yelena Katishonok Jack Who Built the House (Russian: «Джек, который построил дом») (long list of Big Book 2022 [6]) and Children’s Album (Russian: «Детский альбом») have been published in 2021.

Currently, the author lives in Boston, USA. While continuing to write, she is engaged in translations of Polish poetry. In 2024 Yelena Katishonok was awarded The Hemingway Canadian Literary Award for the translations of the poetry of Wisława Szymborska from Polish into Russian.[7]

Publications

  • Блокнот. Стихи. — Tenafly, NJ: Hermitage Publishers, 2005. ISBN 1557791538
  • Жили-были старик со старухой. Роман. — Schuylkill Haven, PA: Hermitage Publisher, 2006. ISBN 1557791597;
— Boston: M-Graphics Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-1-934881-22-4
— СПб.: Геликон Плюс, 2009. ISBN 978-5-93682-562-0
— М.: Время, 2011–2022. ISBN 978-5-9691-0605-5, ISBN 978-5-9691-0666-6, ISBN 978-5-9691-0727-4, ISBN 978-5-9691-0800-4, ISBN 978-5-9691-1113-4, ISBN 978-5-9691-1196-7, ISBN 978-5-9691-1358-9, ISBN 978-5-9691-1509-5, ISBN 978-5-9691-1669-6, ISBN 978-5-9691-1815-7, ISBN 978-5-9691-2008-2, ISBN 978-5-9691-2137-9, ISBN 978-5-9691-2252-9
  • Охота на фазана. Фотографии и стихи. (с Евгением Палагашвили) — Boston: M-Graphics Publishing, 2008. ISBN 978-1-934881-10-1
  • Порядок слов. Стихи. — Boston: M-Graphics Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-1-934881-19-4
— М.: Время, 2011. ISBN 978-5-9691-0663-5
  • Против часовой стрелки. Роман. — Boston: M-Graphics Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-1-934881-17-0
— М.: Время, 2011–2022. ISBN 978-5-9691-0590-4, ISBN 978-5-9691-0667-3, ISBN 978-5-9691-0747-2, ISBN 978-5-9691-1197-4, 2017. ISBN 978-5-9691-1541-5, ISBN 978-5-9691-1757-0, ISBN 978-5-9691-2097-6, ISBN 978-5-9691-2184-3
  • Когда уходит человек. Роман. — Boston: M-Graphics Publishing, 2011. ISBN 978-1-934881-52-1
— М.: Время, 2011–2018. ISBN 978-5-9691-0665-9, ISBN 978-5-9691-0746-5, 978-5-9691-1198-1, ISBN 978-5-9691-1540-8, ISBN 978-5-9691-1816-4

References

  1. ^ ""Вторую мировую уже немного путают с Троянской" | Пятница | Московские новости". mn.ru. Archived from the original on 2011-12-08. Retrieved 2024-03-16.
  2. ^ Катишонок Елена. "Против часовой стрелки - Национальная литературная премия "Большая книга"". bigbook.ru. Retrieved 2024-03-16.
  3. ^ Катишонок Елена. "Когда уходит человек - Национальная литературная премия "Большая книга"". bigbook.ru. Retrieved 2024-03-16.
  4. ^ Катишонок Елена. "Свет в окне - Национальная литературная премия "Большая книга"". bigbook.ru. Retrieved 2024-03-16.
  5. ^ "Торжественная церемония вручения Бунинской премии 2012 года". msk.academica.ru. Retrieved 2024-03-16.
  6. ^ Катишонок Елена. "Джек, который построил дом - Национальная литературная премия "Большая книга"". bigbook.ru. Retrieved 2024-03-16.
  7. ^ "Лауреаты 2023 года - Новый Свет". litsvet.com. Retrieved 2024-03-16.

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