Eugene OstashevskyEugene Ostashevsky was born in Leningrad, grew up in Brooklyn and is now based in Berlin and New York. His books of poetry include The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi, which discusses the challenges of communicationbetween pirates and parrots, and The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza, which examines the defects of natural and artificial languages. As translator of avant-garde and experimental literature in Russian, he focuses on the OBERIU group (Daniil Kharms, Alexander Vvedensky) and its predecessors and successors. He has received the International Poetry Prize of the City of Muenster and the National Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association. Read More Read Less