Yuriy Serebriansky
Kazakhstani author of Polish origin, literary translator, and cultural researcher. PhD Candidate.
His prose, poetry, and non-fiction have appeared in Kazakh, Russian, Polish, Swiss, American, Czech, Chilean, British literary journals and anthologies and been translated into several languages.
Received the order of “Kurmet” for contribution in literature and cultural researches in Kazakhstan.
In 2023 his novel Altynshash awarded by Nation literary prize for interethnic sustainability in Kazakhstan. In 2010 and 2014, he was awarded the Russkaya Premia literary award; in 2017, his [Kazakhstani Fairy Tales] was recognized as the best bilingual book for a young audience at the Silk Road Book Fair; in 2019, his novel [Black Star], co-written with Bakhytzhan Momyshuly (1941-2012) received the Altyn Kalam literary prize.
Editor-in-Chief of Esquire Kazakhstan from 2016 to 2018, former prose editor of the Russian literary magazine Literatura 2019-2023, he is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Kazakhstani Polish diaspora magazine Ałmatyński Kurier Polonijny. IWP International Writing Program Writer – in – Residency 2017. Participant of Struga Poetry Evenings in North Macedonia, Chair Poetry Evenings in Kolkata and Chair Poetry Sangat in Punjab literary festivals.
Vice — president of Kazakh PEN, member of Kazakhstani Writer’s Union and Polish Literary Translators Association (Member – Candidate).
Establishing Director of Almaty Writing Residency annual program since 2022.
Personal page on russophonic literary map «Литературной карте».
Personal page Polish Translators Society
