Յուրի ՍմիրնովԲանաստեղծություն
Was born in Kirovohrad, Ukraine, in 1973, and graduated from Kharkiv State University (biology) and Kirovohrad Pedagogical University (Russian philology). He has worked as a TV and movie script writer, including on the TV series The Dragon Syndrome, The Bone-Setter, Wit Works Woe, and others. Smirnov has published two collections of poetry: Universe Non-Format (2020) and Astra (2021). His poems are included in the anthology Russian Vers Libre (2019), and he received the Grigoriev Poetry Award (2015) and the Lyubimovka Festival Award (2018).
