Victor Ivaniv


Victor Ivaniv was a Russian poet and writer with a doctor of philosophy in philology.

Biography

Ivaniv was born on 11 April 1977 in Novosibirsk, Russia.
He graduated from the Novosibirsk State University, and gained the title of Candidate of Philological Sciences. His dissertation topic was the poetry of the Russian Avant-Garde. He worked as a librarian in the State Public Scientific and Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His works were published in the journals and almanacs Uralskaya Nov, Sibirskie ogni, Vozdukh, Chernovik, Vavilon, TextOnly, Тranslit, Russkaya proza, ©oyuz Pisateley, Stetoskop, Deti Ra and others, in the literary collections Vremya Ch, Chernym po Belomu, in the anthology Nestolichnaya literatura. He lived in Novosibirsk.
He committed suicide on 25 February 2015 by jumping out of the window of his own flat.

Recognition

  • Shortlist in the Debyut Prize, poetry category.
  • Mezdunarodnaya otmetina imeni otza russkogo futurizma Davida Burlyuka .
  • The Andrei Bely Prize, prose category and Chumnoy Pokemar.
  • Diploma of the Мoskovskiy Schyot Prize for the book Dom gruzchika.
Describing her impression of the winners of the Debyut Prize, the critic Lyudmila Vyazmitinova wrote about Ivaniv’s work:
“Ivaniv's texts seem to reproduce the multidirectional movements of many nested images born simultaneously in a saturated point in space, to which the author's gaze is directed. But in all the texts, there is a desire for what Ivaniv himself has called "rising above the panorama" – this sets a certain vertical giving hope for a new horizon for a gaze that breaks through into a qualitatively new space of vision, sensation, and the ability to convey them - with a qualitatively differently organized community of words.”

Remembering

In 2015, the online journal Kulturnaya Initziativa published a short collection of poems dedicated to the passing of Victor Ivaniv.
In April 2017 in Novosibirsk, to coincide with the 40-year anniversary of the birth of Victor Ivaniv, the first Ivanivskie chteniya took place.
The events took place at the State Public Scientific and Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where Ivaniv had been working in his later years. The readings were divided into two streams: the scientific one and the artistic one.
The following writers and literary scholars were the participants of “The Readings of Ivaniv” : Ainsley E. Morse, Heinrich Jackson, Sergei Biryukov, Anna Glazova, Aleksei Dyachkov, Sergei Sokolovskiy, Danila Davydov, Vasily Borodin, Lev Oborin, Nikita Sugnatov, Nikolay Kononov, Alexei Porvin, Stanislav Snytko, Andrei Rodionov, Aleksei A. Shepelev, Aleksandr Zhitenev, Nataliya Sannikova, Vladimir Bogomyakov, Yekaterina Boyarskikh, Andrei Shevtsov, the Novosibirsk poets and literaries Ivan Poltoratskiy, Viktor Raspopin, Igor Silantyev, Andrei Zhdanov, Andrei Schetnikov, Svyatoslav Odarenko, Sergei Shuba, Dmitri Severov, Dmitri Gusev and others.
As part of the readings, the second volume of Victor Ivanivs selected prose Konetz Pokemarya was presented, as well as an exhibition of photographs by the artist Zosya Leutina.
In 2018 in Novosibirsk, a collection of works was published and curated by Sergei Vasilyev, titled The City of Ivaniv. The collective works by various authors include poems dedicated to the memory of Ivaniv. The authors include Sergei Biryukov, Danila Davydov, Gali-Dana Singer, Oleg Yuriev, Aleksei A. Shepelyov, Mikhail Nemtzev, Andrei Rodionov, Aleksei Porvin and others.
In 2020, Aleksandr Zhitenev published an essay, Poetologiya Viktora Ivaniva , in the Litera Magazine.

Publishing history

  • Ivaniv, Victor. Den Kosmonavtiki. Stikhotvoreniya . Novosibirsk: RITz Rassvet, p. 108.
  • Ivaniv, Victor. Sobytylnik Somnambuly: Poema . Novosibirsk: Artel Naprasnyi Trud, p. 12.
  • Ivaniv, Victor. Gorod Vinograd. Povest . Moscow: АRGO-RISK; Tver: KOLONNA Publications, p. 84.
  • Ivaniv, Victor. Gorod Zaton  . Moscow: Deti Ra, issue 3.
  • Ivaniv, Victor. Steklyannyi Chelovek i Zelenaya Plastinka: Stikhi . Moscow: Raketa, p. 130.
  • Ivaniv, Victor. Vosstanie Gryoz. Povest . Moscow, Кorovaknigi, p. 64.
  • Ivaniv, Victor. Dnevnik nabliudenii . Moscow: Book review, p. 80
  • Ivaniv, Victor. Chumnoi Pokemar: Sobranie Prozy . New York: Ailuros Publishing, p. 325.
  • Ivaniv, Victor. Povest o Polechke . Moscow, Korovaknigi, p. 40.
  • Ivaniv, Victor. Trupak i vrach Zarin . Moscow: Avtokhton, p. 44.
  • Ivaniv, Victor. Dom Gruzchika: Stikhi . Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, p. 312..
  • Ivaniv, Victor. Sebastian i v travme . Moscow, Korovaknigi, p. 60.
  • Ivaniv, Victor. Konetz Pokemarya . Moscow, Korovaknigi, p. 404.
  • Ivaniv, Victor. Sostoyavshiesya igry, na kotorykh ya prisutstvoval . Moscow, Korovaknigi, p. 88.
  • Ivaniv, Victor. Stikhotvoreniya Op. 1-47 . Moscow, Korovaknigi, p. 202..
  • Ivaniv, Victor. Korablik na prikole . Novosibirsk, p. 14.
  • Ivaniv, Victor. Corpora Corporationis, ili puteshestvie iz goroda Vinograd v gorod Anton . Moscow, Korovaknigi, p. 128..
  • Ivaniv, Victor. Stikhotvoreniya 2015 goda . Moscow, Korovaknigi, p. 182.