Where to read the texts of poets and writers of Ulyanovsk? The portal "Ulyanovsk - UNESCO City of Literature" presents the first part of the material, which tells where to read the publications of 15 Ulyanovsk authors, in which online stores you can buy their books, and also shares links to writers' websites (the list is in alphabetical order). okay, to be continued).

Irina Bogatyreva (Ulyanovsk-Moscow)

Writer, musician Irina Bogatyreva was born in Kazan, grew up in Ulyanovsk, now lives in Moscow. She graduated from the Gorky Literary Institute and a master's degree at the Center for Typology and Semiotics of Folklore of the Russian State Humanitarian University. Author of 9 books of prose, laureate of the Ilya Prize, the October Magazine Prize, the Belkin Prize, the Goncharov Prize, the Krapivin Prize, the Mikhalkov Prize, the Student Booker, and the Book Book competition. The stories and novellas have been translated into English, French, Chinese, Dutch, Swedish, Arabic and Marathi.

On the author's website you can find news, information about books, interviews. By the way, a new novel by Irina Bogatyryova "White Sogra" was recently released, which the author previously spoke about in an interview with the portal "Ulyanovsk - UNESCO City of Literature". You can read the author’s texts in the Journal Hall, buy books in online stores: Labyrinth, Ozone, LitRes, Bookmate, LiveLib, etc.

Sergey Gogin, poet, journalist, translator, gestalt consultant (Ulyanovsk)

Sergei Gogin was born in 1964 in Uralsk. In 1981 he graduated from secondary school No. 1 in Ulyanovsk, in 1986 - from the Ulyanovsk Polytechnic Institute. He worked at the regional radio and television, in the city newspaper "Simbirsky Courier", hosted the author's program at the TRC "Europroject", worked in the journal "Journalism and Media Market" (Union of Journalists of Russia, Moscow). In 1996, he graduated from the American University in Washington, D.C. with a degree in journalism and mass communications.

From 2014 to 2017 on the stage of the Ulyanovsk Regional Drama Theater there was a one-act play "A Little Man with a Big Heart" based on Sergei Gogin's free verse cycle "About a Little Man", today this performance is in the repertoire of the Ulyanovsk Youth Theater. Since September 2014, he has been the head of the Eight literary studio, and since February 2016, he has been leading the Crossroads English conversation club.

The author's publications in well-known literary magazines can be read in the "Journal Hall", new poems and texts - in the author's group in VK. You can also read an interview with Sergei Gogin on the Ulyanovsk – UNESCO City of Literature portal.

Pavel Grinberg, poet (Ulyanovsk - St. Petersburg)

Born in 1994 in Ulyanovsk. He graduated from the bachelor's degree at the Ulyanovsk State Technical University and a master's degree from the Higher School of Printing and Media Technologies in St. Petersburg. Winner of the St. Petersburg poetry competition "Criteria of Freedom" named after Joseph Brodsky (2014). Lives in St. Petersburg.

Poems and texts of the author can be found on the Polutona portal, the author's page in VK, the Medium portal, the New Map of Russian Literature portal, Topos, etc.

Mikhail Kamaleev (Ulyanovsk - Moscow)

Mikhail Kamaleev is a writer, journalist, creator of the Music in Books and Bug Hunt projects, author of the books 17 Orgasms of Spring, Masha Onegin, Music in Books, several stories and scripts. Member of the Forum of Young Writers in Lipki (2004). Producer of the author's blog "Darykova.Ru | Ulyanovsk, celebrities, events".

The author's website provides detailed information about his texts, links to interviews, as well as links to online stores where you can buy books (Ozon, Amazon, LitRes, etc.).

Elena Kuvshinnikova, poet, editor-in-chief of the Simbirsk literary magazine (Ulyanovsk)

In 1991, the first book of poems by Elena Kuvshinnikova "Quiet Light" was published. In 1994, the author was admitted to the Writers' Union of Russia. Since 1993, she has worked for ten years at the Central City Library named after I. I.A. Goncharova, was the head of the Literary Living Room, later the living room became the Poets' Club. From 2005 to 2010 she worked for the Monomakh magazine. Man of the Year 2003, winner of the Monomakh's Cap Grand Prix; since 2010 - editor-in-chief of the almanac "Karamzinsky Garden", since 2014 - editor-in-chief of the magazine "Simbirsk". Author of books of poems "One Hope", "Grace of the Heart", "The Miracle of the Meeting". She has been published in many regional and all-Russian magazines and collections. In 2013 she became a laureate of the Nikolai Blagov Regional Poetry Prize, in December 2016 the author was awarded the Medal of Honor for her great contribution to the preservation and promotion of historical and cultural heritage, fruitful creative activity and merits in the development of domestic literature.

A list of the author's publications can be found on the Literary Map portal, in the Journal Hall. On the Ulyanovsk Pravda website, you can watch issues of the Literary Lounge hosted by Elena Kuvshinnikova. Here is a special issue that tells about the poet's creative union with the musician Elena Ushakova.

Kirill Lukovkin, prose writer, author of social fiction, "dark direction" and thrillers (Ulyanovsk)

Kirill Lukovkin was born in 1985 in the city of Baku (Azerbaijan). Then in 1990, together with his family, he moved to Ulyanovsk, where he still lives. In 2007 he graduated from the Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University named after I.N. Ulyanov with a degree in jurisprudence. Works as a teacher. The sphere of creative interests is science fiction and its subgenres, literature of the "dark direction" and thriller. Published in Reality Fiction, Milky Way, Edita magazines and the DARKER webzine. The author's debut novel "The Citadel", written at the intersection of dystopia and post-apocalypse, was published by E publishing house in 2016. The protagonist escapes from his native Commune in order to find out the truth about the world around him - the space of a high-tech Thermopolis.

The author's books can be found on the Author.today portal, as well as on Amazon (in English). On the portal "Ulyanovsk - UNESCO City of Literature" you can read an interview with the author.

Danila Nozdryakov, poet, journalist (Ulyanovsk)

Danila Nozdryakov was born in 1986 in Ulyanovsk, where he continues to live. Graduated from Ulyanovsk State University. He worked as a teacher of philosophy and history, now a journalist. Published on the Polutona website, in the magazines Translit, Simbirsk, Literratura, Textura.club, in the collection Music of Words: 100 New Names, and others. Participant of literary festivals in Cheboksary ("Voice-A"), Tolyatti, Saratov ("Centre of Spring"). He was on the long list of the literary award "Lyceum" named after A. S. Pushkin (2018). Winner of the international literary competition "Verlibre" (2018) in the nominations "Poetry" and "Prose". Diploma winner of the international Voloshin competition (2019). Participant of the international forum of young writers (2019, Ulyanovsk) and the seminar of the Moscow Writers' Union (2019, Zvenigorod), which resulted in the publication of the debut book "The Volga Children's Republic" (you can read it here, as well as in the library of the Forma Slova magazine).

In addition, you can read the author's poems in a group in VK, on ​​the Literature portal, in the Forma slov magazine, the Texture magazine, etc. Read the interview with the poet on the Ulyanovsk - UNESCO City of Literature portal.

Lidia Pekhtereva, journalist, author of children's fairy tales and poems (Ulyanovsk)

Lidia Pekhtereva was born in 1983 in Ulyanovsk, spent her preschool childhood in the village of Polovo in Belarus, then the family returned to Ulyanovsk. She graduated from school-gymnasium No. 59, and in 2005 - UlSTU (graduate of the Department of Philology, Publishing and Editing). While still a student, she began working as a journalist in the Simbirsky Courier newspaper, at the same time she became one of the founders and authors of the first news site in Ulyanovsk, Ulgrad.ru, which was later formalized as the news agency Ulyanovsk - City of News.

The author's texts can be read on the website of the All-Russian Festival of the Short Story "Bark", in the magazine "Forma of Words", on the literary portal "First Dew" (including miniatures). On the portal "Ulyanovsk - UNESCO City of Literature" you can read materials about the author.

Vyacheslav Savin, poet, Ulyanovsk

Vyacheslav was born in 1989. His poems were published in the magazines "Simbirsk", "Volga", "Znamya" and "October". In 2018, Vyacheslav became a scholarship holder of the Lipki International Forum of Young Writers. The author's poems can be found in the "Journal Room", as well as on the portal of the magazine Literratura. Here you can watch the author's readings during the Literary Tram 2019 campaign.

Evgeny Safronov, writer, folklorist, candidate of philological sciences, Ulyanovsk

Author of more than 30 scientific publications, three collections of fiction: "The Juggler and Other Stories" (Ulyanovsk, 2011), "Eroshkin - a fortuneteller from Kuvay. Novels and stories” (Ulyanovsk, 2015), “Expedition. Grandmothers offline (M.: Pero, 2018). For the second collection in 2016 he received the International Literary Prize named after I.A. Goncharova. The main genre of the author is philosophical and science fiction. For many years, Yevgeny Safronov has been collecting information about people with unusual, supernatural abilities.

On the author's website you can download all published books, some of the writer's texts are also presented here. The author's audiobooks can be found on the Akniga and Knigavuhe portals

Pavel Soldatov, poet, performer, organizer of cultural events, head of the Absurdus theatre, specialist in creative genres of the UlSPU cultural center and creator of the Art-Eklektika cultural center (Ulyanovsk)

The author's poems can be found here, a long interview here, Absurdus theater performances here.

Gala Uzryutova, poet, writer, playwright, author of photo projects and interdisciplinary art projects (Ulyanovsk)

Graduated from Ulyanovsk State University, faculty of culture and art. Author of the book of poems “I turned around, and there is a forest” (“Russian Gulliver”, M., - 2015), a collection of prose “The Snow I Missed” (Bookscriptor, M., - 2018), Young Adult book “Country Sasha” (“CompassGid”, M., - 2019). The texts were translated into German, English, Italian, Slovenian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Latvian. Interested in issues related to the mythologization of space, sound mentality, landscape mentality, etc.

Laureate of the Russian-Italian literary award "Rainbow 2019", laureate of the competition of the European Theater Translation Network Eurodram (2018), scholarship holder of the Goethe-Institut Culture in Motion Program (2019), laureate of the Bookscriptor 2018 literary award, laureate of the N.N. Blagova (2016), Diploma of the Dmitry Gorchev Literary Prize (2017), Laureate of the Badenweiler International Drama Competition (2016), Laureate of the Russian Gulliver-2014 Special Poetry Prize. Winner of the Garage Museum of Modern Art competition dedicated to self-isolation (2020). She worked in international writers' residences in Europe, participated in international literary festivals and projects.

The author's website provides detailed information about books, poetry projects and plays, you can read the writer's texts in the Journal Hall, Russian and foreign magazines, buy books, audiobooks in Labyrinth, Ozon, LitRes, LiveLib, Bookmate, MyBook, Ruslania Finland and etc.

Igor Ulitin, poet, prose writer, journalist (Ulyanovsk)

Born in 1986 in the village of Cherny Klyuch, Bazarnosyzgansky district, since 2003 lives in Ulyanovsk. Graduated from UlGPU. Education teacher of geography and biology. Since 2008 he has been working as a journalist, of which five years in the "Narodnaya Gazeta". Author of the samizdat collection "Unwilling".

Laureate of the competitions "First Dew", "Simbirlit", "Flight of Fantasy". He was on the long list of the Filatov Festival. One of the founders of the creative association "Gang of Ilyich". In prose, she prefers short format, in poetry - civil lyrics and satire.

You can read the author's texts in a VK group on the Litra.online portal.

Andrey Tsukhlov, poet, Ulyanovsk

Born in 1975 in the city of Slantsy, Leningrad Region. Graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the Ulyanovsk Pedagogical University (1997). For several years he worked in the city newspaper Ulyanovsk Segodnya. Author of poetry collections "Thursday Rain" (2000), "After Thursday Rain" (2006), "Cricket and Train" (2011) and short stories.

Author's page on the Ul Litka website. You can read the poet's poems here, watch the conversation with the author in the "Literary Living Room" - here.

Olga Sheipak, writer, editor-in-chief of the Monomakh magazine (Ulyanovsk)

Olga Georgievna Sheipak ​​is a prose writer, author of fiction and journalistic books. Member of the Writers' Union of Russia. Laureate of the All-Russian Literary Prize named after I.A. Goncharov, All-Russian Orthodox Literary Prize. St. Alexander Nevsky.

From an interview with the writer: “My father is from Transbaikalia, my mother is from Mogilev, so my capillary system is from the Baikal depths, where I was born, and my nervous system is from Belarusian melancholy and tenderness.”

Olga Sheipak ​​has been living in Ulyanovsk for many years. She worked as a TV journalist, hosted an author's television program about cultural events in the region. From 1995, she worked as an editor, and from 2001 to 2015, she was the editor-in-chief of the Monomakh local history magazine, to which she returned in 2020. Honored journalist of the Ulyanovsk region. Recently, the Aldoor Publishing House published a new novel by the writer - Tarbagatai, about which the author told the Ulyanovsk - UNESCO City of Literature portal.

You can read Olga Sheipak's texts on the Simbirsk literary magazine website, find books on the LitRes portal, and buy the Tarbagatai book on the Aldoor publishing house website, on the Bukvoed portal. You can watch a video interview with Olga Sheipak ​​in the Literary Living Room.

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Literary club "First Dew": here you can read poetry and prose by Ulyanovsk authors (as well as writers from other cities). Community "First Dew" in VK.

Ul-Litka's site: here are the pages of some Ulyanovsk authors (VK group).