Mikhail Viesel

Mikhail Viesel Born 20 July 1970, Moscow, Russia. 1987-1992: Studied at the Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering; degree in mechanical engineering. 1993-1998: Studied at the Gorky Institute of Literature in Moscow; degree in literary translations. 1996- present: freelance cultural critic and essayist, writing for leading Moscow publications (see below). 1998-2002: part-time post-graduate student at Gorky Institute of Literature, writing a dissertation about Italo Calvino and literary hypertext. 1999-2002, 2003-2004: staff editor for Moscow's leading online newspaper, Lenta.ru (http://www.lenta.ru), responsible for - searching out relevant news items and keeping track of developing stories - reformatting, writing and editing stories according to online newspaper format - developing hypertext apparatus, converting text into hypertext using HTML, FTP clients, graphics processors. - collaborating with the site's information affiliates 2003: Script writer for two weekly 30-min shows for channel "Rambler-TV": "Music of the planet" and "Music and Internet". 2004: Staff editor for pop-science magazine "GeoFocus" 2004 - 2006: PR-director for Fundamental Digital Library "Russian Literature and Folklore" 2004 - 2007: staff editor (books reviewer) for Time Out Moscow 2007 - 2011: staff editor for "Inostranka/CoLibri publishers" ("Atticus Publishing house") 2009 - present: Lecturer for creative writing courses at CINEMOTION Important Publications "Calvino's Later Works as Examples of Hypertext," Setevaya Slovestnost' (Net Belles Lettres) (http://www.litera.ru/slova/) Moscow: November, 1998 French translation: Les derniers romans d'Italo Calvino comme hypertextes (http://hypermedia.univ-paris8.fr/Groupe/documents/Calvino.htm) "Hypertexts on Both Sides of the Computer Screen," Inostrannaya Literatura (Foreign Literature), Moscow: October, 1999. "The Ancestors of Postmodernism: Calvino's Trilogy," Russky Zhurnal (Russian Journal, http://www.russ.ru), Moscow: April, 2000 "E-pistolary Novel," Russky Zhurnal (Russian Journal), Moscow: April, 2001 "Twelve Plots in Search of a Reader: Calvino's 'If on a Winter's Night a Traveller…'" Vestnik Molodykh Uchenykh (Journal of Young Scientists: Philological Series,) Vol. 6'01, St. Petersburg: 2001 "Literary Games on the Internet," Novy Mir (New World), Moscow: April, 2002 Literary Translations (all - from Italian) Novyie Veruyuschie - Giacomo Leopardi's poem I Nuovi Credenti. Moscow, Respublika: November 2000 Vsio ravno tebe vodit' - Giuseppe Culicchia's novel Tutti giu' per terra. Moscow, Pangloss: 2002, San-Petersburg, Symposium: 2004 Amabarabá - Giuseppe Chulicchia's novel (in work) Micellaneous: Fluent in English and Italian Created hypertext literary project "Le città invisibili on-line" (http://calvino.viesel.ru) (2002) Wrote the 240-pages guide for New York (Moscow: Afisha, 2003) Spent May-December 2002 in New York for family reasons Accomplishments: Winner of the on-line literary contest "Art-Teneta 2000" (translation category)