Felix Krivin
| Felix Krivin | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Felix Davidovich Krivin June 11, 1928 Mariupol, USSR |
| Nationality | USSR, Israel |
| Occupation | writer, poet |
| Years active | 1962–present |
| Style | Humor |
Felix Davidovich Krivin, (Russian: Фе́ликс Дави́дович Кри́вин, tr. Félix Davídovich Krívin; born June 11, 1928, in Mariupol, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is a Soviet, Russian and Israeli writer and poet, author of intellectual humoristic prose.
Biography
Felix Davidovich Krivin was born June 11, 1928 in a Jewish family in Mariupol.
In 1993, the family moved to Odessa.
In 1945, after evacuation, Krivin moved to Izmail, where he finished evening school and worked as a mechanic apprentice before becoming a mechanic on the "Edelweiss" barge of Danube Shipping Company. He later became a night shift proofreader in "Pridunayskaya Pravda" ("Danubian Truth") where his first poems were published, and a radiojournalist at the Izmail regional Radio Committee.
In 1951, he finished the Kiev State Pedagogical Institute.
In 1951–1954 – worked as a teacher in Mariupol and got married.
In 1954–1955 – lived in Kiev.
In 1955, Krivin moved to Uzhhgorod, where he worked as a contributing editor at Zakarpattia Oblast publishing house.
In 1962, he was accepted to the Writers' Union of Ukraine.
In 1990, Krivin was a laureate of the Korolenko republican award.
In 1998, Felix Krivin moved to Israel; he now lives in Beersheba.
Career
Author of more than 25 books which were published starting from the 1960s by various Soviet publishing houses.
Krivin collaborated with comedian Arkady Raikin, for whom he wrote interludes.
In 2006, Krivin became a laureate of the Subcarpathian Rus independent literature "Russian award"[1]