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Yelena Katishonok (Yelena Alexandrovna Katishonok) was born on 1950 in Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Riga, Latvia), is a Russian-language writer. Discover Yelena Katishonok's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?
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Yelena Alexandrovna Katishonok |
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poet, novelist, translator, literary editor |
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Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union
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Yelena Katishonok Net Worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Yelena Alexandrovna Katishonok (Елена Александровна Катишонок, born 1950) is an American Russian-language writer, author of three books of poetry, six novels and one book of short stories.
Yelena Katishonok was born in Riga, Latvia (former Latvian SSR).
She entered the philological department of Pēteris Stučka Latvian State University (now, the University of Latvia) in 1968.
After graduation, she worked in various fields: teaching, editing and translation.
In 1991 emigrated to the USA.
Combining teaching with translation activities, she started writing.
The first poetry book The Notebook («Блокнот») was published in 2005.
Next year, in 2006, Yelena Katishonok presented her first novel in the family saga genre Once There Lived an Old Man with His Old Woman («Жили-были старик со старухой»).
In 2008 M-Graphics Publishing House (Boston, USA) released The Pheasant Hunt («Охота на фазана») – a collection of poems, with photographs of Eugene Palagashvili.
First published in the US by Hermitage Publishers, it was printed in St. Petersburg, Russia by Gelikon Plus publishing house and won Gogol Prize for 2009 "for the best work in the genre of love and family novel".
The same year the book was on the shortlist of the Russian Booker Prize.
Soon Vremya Publishing House, Moscow released the novel and became the main publishing house of the author (more than 35 prints of 8 titles).
Next year, in 2009, the new poetry book Order of Words («Порядок слов») was published, first in Boston, later in Moscow.
Each of these novels was in the long lists of Russian literary award Big Book (award) (2010, 2011, 2015 ).
At the same time, Yelena Katishonok continued to write poetry.
The novel became a winner of the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award of 2011.
The following novels Counterclockwise («Против часовой стрелки»), As a Man Leaves («Когда уходит человек»), and Light in a Window («Свет в окне») continue the first one, expanding and deepening the storylines.
Taken together, they are considered as a sequential cycle of the saga of Ivanovs.
The book was included in a shortlist of the Bunin Prize of 2012.
The novel As a Man Leaves was translated to German (Das Haus in der Palissadnaja, Wien: Braumüller, 2014) and Estonian (Kui inimene läheb ära, Tallinn: Tõlkebüroo Pangloss OÜ, 2021).
Two latest novels of Yelena Katishonok Jack Who Built the House («Джек, который построил дом») (long list of Big Book (award) 2022 ) and Children’s Album («Детский альбом») have been published in 2021.
Currently, the author lives in Boston, USA.
While continuing to write, she is engaged in translations of Polish poetry.
In 2024 Yelena Katishonok was awarded The Hemingway Canadian Literary Award for the translations of the poetry of Wisława Szymborska from Polish into Russian.
