{{Short description|Russian Poet}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2017}}
'''Fyodor Nikolayevich Svarovsky''' ({{langx|ru|Фёдор Николаевич Сваровский}}, born 6 April 1971 in Moscow) is a Russian poet and journalist.<ref name="litkarta">{{cite web|url=http://www.litkarta.ru/russia/moscow/persons/svarovsky-f/|title=Фёдор Сваровский|publisher=Новая карта русской литературы|language=Russian|accessdate=15 January 2017}}</ref>
Svarovsky, after graduating from high school, at the age of 19 emigrated to Denmark, was granted an asylum, and lived in Copenhagen. In 1996, he returned to Moscow where he worked as journalist.<ref name="litkarta" /> He also published poetry at net resources and read it at poetic events.<ref name="davydov">{{cite web|url=http://www.litkarta.ru/dossier/itogi-goda2007/dossier_2336/|title=Итоги года|last=Davydov|first=Danila|year=2011|publisher=Книжное обозрение|language=Russian|accessdate=16 January 2017}}</ref> In 2007, he published his first book of poetry, which was shortlisted for the Andrei Bely Prize.<ref name="litkarta" /> This book, ''Vse khotyat byt robotami'' (Everybody wants to be a robot), was described as escapism from the real world to the fantastic world populated by robots; however, this fantastic world turns out to be very similar to the real one.<ref name="davydov" />
In 2008, Svarovsky gave a talk where he came up with the theory of "new epos", a new creative tool, applying it to his own poetry.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://os.colta.ru/literature/events/details/1249/?_ga=1.217463638.1950938349.1485268089|title=Что такое "новый эпос"|last=Babitskaya|first=Varvara|date=20 February 2008|publisher=Colta|language=Russian|accessdate=24 January 2017}}</ref> He considers himself a postmodernist.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.colta.ru/articles/literature/8917|title=Федор Сваровский: "Никаких угнетаемых или неслышных голосов нет"|last=Sdobnov|first=Sergey|date=20 October 2015|publisher=Colta|language=Russian|accessdate=24 January 2017}}</ref>
Since 2016 Svarovsky lives in Montenegro. In 2019 he was awarded with the prize of International festival ''Poetry without borders'' in Riga.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.literaturewithoutborders.lv/news#the-third-edition-of-poetry-without-borders-festival|title=The third edition of "Poetry without borders" festival|last=|first=|year=2019|publisher=Literature Without Borders (Latvia)|language=|accessdate=30 June 2019}}</ref>
==Works== Svarovsky published four books of poetry. * ''Vse khotyat byt robotami'' (Все хотят быть роботами, Everybody wants to be a robot), 2007; translated to Spanish as ''Todos quieren ser robots'', by Eugenio López Arriazu, 2015. * ''Vse srazu'' (Все сразу, Everybody together), with Leonid Shvab and Arseny Rovinsky 2008. * ''Puteshestvenniki vo vremeni'' (Путешественники во времени, Time travellers), 2009. * ''Slava geroyam'' (Слава героям), 2015.
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==External links== * {{facebook|Feodor_Swarovskiy}} * [https://web.sas.upenn.edu/yourlanguagemyear/resources/#Swarovski Bibliography of poetry in English translation]
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