Felix Krivin Russian and Israeli writer, poet, prose writer Date of Birth: 11.06.1928 Country: Israel

Biography of Felix Krivin

Felix Krivin is a Russian and Israeli writer, poet, and prose writer. He was born on June 11, 1928, in the city of Mariupol. In 1933, his family moved to Odessa. In 1945, after being evacuated, he arrived in Izmail where he worked as an apprentice motorist and later as a motorist on the self-propelled barge "Edelweiss" of the Danube Shipping Company. He also worked as a night corrector at the newspaper "Pridunaiskaya Pravda" (his first poems were published here) and as a radio journalist at the Izmail regional radio committee. He completed evening secondary school during this time. In 1951, he graduated from the Kiev Pedagogical Institute.

From 1951 to 1954, Krivin worked as a teacher in Mariupol, where he also got married. He lived in Kiev from 1954 to 1955 before moving to Uzhgorod. In Uzhgorod, he worked as an editor at the Zakarpattya Regional Publishing House. In 1962, he was admitted to the Union of Writers of Ukraine. His book "In the Land of Things" was published in Moscow, and "Pocket School" was published in Uzhgorod. In 1990, he became the laureate of the V.G. Korolenko Republican Prize.

In 1998, Krivin moved to Israel and currently resides in Be'er Sheva. He is the author of dozens of books, which have been published by various publishers in the Soviet Union since the early 1960s. He collaborated with Arkady Raikin, for whom he wrote interludes. In 2001, his book "Felix Krivin" (670 pages) was published in Moscow by "Eksmo-Press" as part of the "Satire and Humor Anthology" series (volume 18). In 2006, he became the laureate of the Independent Literary "Russian Award" of Subcarpathian Rus.