Boris Khersonsky

Boris Khersonsky: born in 1950, is a poet, translator, professor of clinical psychology, and lives in Odessa where he graduated from the Institute of Medicine in 1974. In 2006 he published Family Archive, followed in 2008 by Under Construction and Out of Fence. He is the winner of numerous literary awards. Since 1998 he has been the editor of the magazine “Krešcatik.” He won the Foundation’s Josif Brodsky Prize in 2008. For the publication of the German edition of Familien–archiv (Wiesel Verlag), 2010, he was awarded the special prize “Literaris.”