Felix Krivin

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Felix Krivin
Born
Felix Davidovich Krivin

(1928-06-11)June 11, 1928
Occupation(s)writer, poet, screenwriter
Years active1962–2016
StyleHumor

Felix Davidovich Krivin (Ukrainian: Фе́лікс Дави́дович Кри́він, tr. Félix Davídovich Krívin; June 11, 1928 – December 24, 2016) was a Soviet, Ukrainian and Israeli writer and poet, author of intellectual humoristic prose, screenwriter.

Early life

Felix Davidovich Krivin was born June 11, 1928, in a

Odessa in 1933. In 1945, after evacuation, Krivin moved to Izmail, where he finished evening school. He graduated from the Kiev State Pedagogical Institute
in 1951.

Career

Krivin worked as a

radiojournalist
at the Izmail regional Radio Committee.

Krivin worked as a teacher in

Kiev in 1954-1955, he moved to Uzhhgorod, where he worked as a contributing editor at Zakarpattia Oblast publishing house. In 1962, he was accepted to the Writers' Union of Ukraine. In 1990, Krivin was a laureate of the Korolenko
republican award.

Krivin was the author of more than 25 books which were published starting from the 1960s by various Soviet

publishing houses. He collaborated with comedian Arkady Raikin, for whom he wrote interludes. In 2006, he became a laureate of the Subcarpathian Rus independent literature "Russian award".[1]

One of his most famous creations are the "half-legends"; in 2018, a few of the stories were the first of his work to be published in English in the online edition of the World Literature Today journal, translated from Russian by Anna Burneika.[2]

Personal life and death

Krivin moved to Israel, where he settled with his wife in Beersheba in 1998. He died on December 24, 2016, at the age of 88.

References

  1. ^ "Felix Krivin – Independent literature "Russian award"" Независимая литературная "Русская премия" [Independent literature "Russian award"] (in Russian).
  2. ^ "Six Microfictions by Felix Krivin". World Literature Today. June 4, 2018.