Sergej Zavjalov

Author

Sergej Zavjalov (born 1958, Tsarskoe Selo, Ingermanlandia), Russian writer of Mordovian origin; graduated from St.Petersburg State University in 1985 with MA in classical philology; in 1980s member of non-conformist literary union Club-81; the author of three collections of poems, the latest of which was translated into Finnish and Swedish.

November-December 2008, the Saari Residence, Sergej Zavjalov was working on a series of articles European and National Trends in Russian Contemporary Poetry and took part in Sapgirovskie chtenia -conference in Moscow, where he made a paper connected with this project.

Two articles that were completed in Saari have already been published: Vjacheslav Ivanov, the translator of Greek Lyric (NLO 2009/95), analyses the work of a Russian poet who had been educated in Germany and became one of the few literary men with European ambitions in the early-20th-century Russia.

The second article Mordvinerna: Rekonstruktion och dekonstruktion av ett identitetskap, was published in Swedish as an afterword to the translation of Zavjalov’s collection of poems (Melik och Tal, trans. Mikael Nydahl, Ariel skrifter, 2009).

Sergej Zavjalov worked at the Saari Residence in April and May 2008.