Adrian Wanner
Adrian Wanner is Liberal Arts Research Professor of Slavic Languages and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Baudelaire in Russia (University Press of Florida 1996), Russian Minimalism: From the Prose Poem to the Anti-Story (Northwestern University Press 2003), and Out of Russia: Fictions of a New Translingual Diaspora (Northwestern University Press 2011). This last book is an investigation of contemporary Russian migrant literature written in French, German, English, and Hebrew. Born and raised in Switzerland, he has published six editions of Russian, Romanian, and Ukrainian poetry in his German verse translation. He is currently living in Berlin and writing a book on multilingualism and self-translation among Russian poets.