Mikhail Meylakh
Михаил Мейлах
Poet, philologist, linguist
Mikhail Meilakh (b. 1945) – poet, philologist, art historian, art critic, professor at the University of Strasbourg.
The author of studies in the field of Russian poetry and the poetry of medieval troubadours, translated their biographies and Nabokov’s novels, published and researched the poetry of the OBERIUts (Vvedensky and Kharms) that he discovered in the 60s in a private archive.
He published memoirs about Akhmatova and Brodsky, as well as dialogues with the latter. He published two extensive volumes of his many years of conversations with outstanding dancers (including the Russian Ballets), musicians, actors and artists.
The author of studies in the field of Russian poetry and the poetry of medieval troubadours, translated their biographies and Nabokov’s novels, published and researched the poetry of the OBERIUts (Vvedensky and Kharms) that he discovered in the 60s in a private archive.
He published memoirs about Akhmatova and Brodsky, as well as dialogues with the latter. He published two extensive volumes of his many years of conversations with outstanding dancers (including the Russian Ballets), musicians, actors and artists.