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Efim Yaroshevsky was born in Odessa in 1935. He graduated as a philologist from the Odessa Pedagogical Institute. For several years, he lived in Novosibirsk where he worked as an editor at Nauka, a Science publication, a librarian at the Novosibirsk University, and as a correspondent for a local newspaper. Upon returning to Odessa he worked in different schools for over 35 years, teaching Russian literature to high school seniors. His unusual novel, the legendary Provincial'nyi poman-s [Provincial Romance] written in 1972-1976, was known via the Samizdat long before its official release in New York in 1998 on Lifebell Books. It was subsequently published in Munich, Kiev, St.Petersburg, and Odessa, where it came out in 2005 in a book called Korolevskoye Leto [Royal Summer], which also included other prose and selected poetry. In 2006, the novel came out in in St. Petersburg from the publisher Aleteya [Alethea], in a hard cover edition which also included his other prose, Leto i Livni: Vtoraya Proza [Summer and Showers: The Second Prose]. He has written poetry his whole life, but after being rejected by a Soviet publisher, he never attempted to publish anything again until the collapse of the Soviet Union. Since 1991, his poems have appeared regularly in the literary magazines Arion, Novy Mir [New World], Oktyabr' [October], Khreschatyk,Samvatas, Deti Ra [Children of Ra], and the literary almanacs Article, Deribasovskaya-Risheliyevskay, and others, including the anthologies Osvobozhdenyi Uliss [Liberated Ulysses] and Solnechnoye Spleteniye [Solar Plexus]. Besides Russia and Ukraine, his work has been published in Israel, Germany, and the US. In 2000, Efim won best work dedicated to Odessa in the Network Duke internet contest in the category of prose. His first collection of poetry, Poety Pishut V Stol [Poets Write Into The Desk], came out in 2001. His most recent collection, Kholodhyi Veter Yuga [Cold Southern Wind], came out in 2010. In 2008, Efim moved to Germany where he lives with his wife, Tanya.
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