Boris Dubin

Additionally he was a lecturer of sociology of culture at the Russian State University for the Humanities and the Moscow higher school of social and economic sciences.

In the second half of the 1960s he visited the seminars of famous poets and translators such as Arseny Tarkovsky, David Samoylov and Boris Slutsky.

Other famous writers whose verses and prose he translated were Guillaume Apollinaire, Endre Ady, Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, César Vallejo, José Lezama Lima, Fernando Pessoa.

His translations also included essays of writers such as Susan Sontag, Isaiah Berlin, Maurice Blanchot, Emil Cioran, Henri Michaux, Yves Bonnefoy, Philippe Jaccottet, José Ortega y Gasset, Julio Cortázar, Giorgio Agamben.

Dubin translated the works of several Polish authors like Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Czesław Miłosz, Janusz Szuber and Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki.