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Pavel GrushkoPoet
Date of Birth: 15.08.1931
Country:  Russia |
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Russian Poet, Playwright, and Translator
Childhood and FamilyRussian poet, playwright, prose, and poetry translator (primarily from Spanish and English), and essayist Oleg Gruško was born in Odessa, Russia. His father, Moisei Iosifovich Gruško, lived from 1895 to 1991, and his mother, Khinia Yakovlevna Gruško née Levenshetein, lived from 1904 to 1978. He has twin sisters, Agnessia and Yanina (who lived from 1939 to 2008). A month after his birth, his mother returned to Moscow with him. He spent his childhood there until 1941, primarily in the Yelokhovka neighborhood.
Due to the war, the family was forced to relocate to the Ural Mountains for a brief period. However, they were later deprived of their Moscow residence permit and moved to the suburban town of Pushkino. Gruško completed his secondary education at a local school in 1949.
Education and Career
After working for two years at a local newspaper, Gruško enrolled in the Spanish department of the Translation Faculty at the First Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages (now Moscow State Linguistic University). He graduated in 1955.
Gruško married Inna Romanyuk, with whom he had a son named Dmitry (born 1955). He later married Maria Koreneva, and they had a son named Kirill (born 1977). Since the early 2000s, he has primarily resided in Boston, USA.
Literary Contributions
Gruško became a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR in 1965. He was a founding member and vice president (poetry sector) of the Association of Hispanists of Russia. From 1990 to 1995, he led a creative workshop at the Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow.
Gruško served as an international jury member for poetry in Cuba (1967) and twice in Panama (2002, 2012). He developed the art concept "Trans/Forms," which is a theory and practice of artistic translation as a method of metamorphosis in various art forms.
