{{short description|American poet}}
'''Lev Loseff'''<!-- funny spelling of surname per ref --><ref name="dartmouth"/> ({{langx|ru|Лев Влади́мирович Ло́сев}}; birth name Lev Lifshitz; June 15, 1937 – May 6, 2009) was a Russian poet, literary critic, essayist and educator.<ref name="ozon">{{cite web |url=http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/242801/ |title=Lev Vladimirovich Loseff |language=Russian |publisher=Ozon.ru |accessdate=June 13, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121122041749/http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/242801/ |archive-date=November 22, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Early life and education== The son of poet Vladimir Lifshitz, Loseff was born in Leningrad.<ref name="ozon" /> He attended Leningrad's famous Saint Peter's School and graduated from the journalism department of the Leningrad State University.<ref name="ozon" />
==Literary career== Loseff immigrated to the U.S. in 1976.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/06/world/soviet-turmoil-exiled-russian-writers-free-to-return-find-visiting-is-enough.html?pagewanted=all |title=Soviet Turmoil; Exiled Russian Writers, Free to Return, Find Visiting Is Enough |first=Seth |last=Mydans |newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 6, 1991}}</ref> He earned a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Michigan and became a professor of Russian literature at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, a position he held until his death thirty years later.<ref name="dartmouth">{{cite news |url=http://thedartmouth.com/2009/05/12/russian-department-chair-dies-at-71/ |title=Russian department chair dies at 71 |last=Gonzalez |first=Katie |newspaper=The Dartmouth |date=May 12, 2009 |accessdate=June 13, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160628105756/http://thedartmouth.com/2009/05/12/russian-department-chair-dies-at-71/ |archive-date=June 28, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In his later years Loseff was a Russian-language radio personality and a prolific author, writing both poetry and non-fiction works on Russian literature.<!-- В 1962—1975 гг. работал редактором в детском журнале «Костёр», писал пьесы для кукольного театра, стихи для детей. Взял псевдоним «Лосев», чтобы его не путали с отцом; после эмиграции в США (1976) сделал бывший псевдоним своим паспортным именем. В США работал наборщиком-корректором в издательстве «Ардис», закончил аспирантуру Мичиганского университета и с 1979 г. преподавал русскую литературу в Дартмутском колледже в штате Нью-Гэмпшир. Написал книгу об эзоповом языке в советской литературе и много статей. Писал лирические стихи в студенческие годы, но сомневался в их самостоятельности и бросил. Начал писать снова, неожиданно для себя, в 1974 г., а с 1979 г. печататься, сначала в эмигрантских изданиях, а с 1988 г. и в России. Писал, в частности, о «Слове о полку Игореве», Антоне Чехове, Анне Ахматовой, Александре Солженицыне, Иосифе Бродском. Под его редакцией выходили книги Михаила Булгакова, Николая Олейникова, Евгения Шварца. -->
Loseff died on May 6, 2009, in Hanover, NH.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.polit.ru/news/2009/05/07/losev.html|title = В США скончался писатель и литературовед Лев Лосев}}</ref>
==Works== *Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life *Joseph Brodsky: The Art of a Poem (co-edited with Valentina Polukhina) *Iosif Brodskii: Trudy i dni (co-edited with Petr Vail) *On the Beneficence of Censorship: Aesopian Language in Modern Russian Literature *Poetika Brodskogo *Brodsky's Poetics and Aesthetics (co-edited with Valentina Polukhina) *A Sense of Place: Tsarskoe Selo and Its Poets (co-edited with Barry Scherr) *Eight collections of poetry and prose in Russian.<ref name="dartmouth"/>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * https://www.vavilon.ru/texts/prim/losev0.html * http://www.rvb.ru/np/publication/02comm/10/07losev.htm * [http://gallery.vavilon.ru/people/l/losev/ Photographs of Loseff] * [http://www.booknik.ru/reviews/non-fiction/?id=12088&type=BigReview Book review] of Loseff's biography of Joseph Brodsky. * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090510015629/http://www.ogoniok.com/5070/27/ Interview with Loseff] in Ogonyok magazine. * https://levloseff.blogspot.com/ * "''Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life'' by Lev Loseff" in ''Quarterly Conversation'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20190601161714/http://quarterlyconversation.com/joseph-brodsky-a-literary-life-by-lev-loseff]
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