Occupation Poet
Journalist Role Poet Name Gennady Katsov | Citizenship American Language Russian | |
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Books 365 Days Around the Sun: Poetry Collection | ||
Gennady Katsov Russian: Геннадий Кацов (born February 13, 1956 in (Yevpatoria, Ukraine) – a Russian-American poet, writer and journalist. Born and raised in the Crimean peninsula, in the early 1980s Gennady Katsov moved to Moscow where in 1986 he was one of the founders of the legendary Moscow Poetry Club and from 1987 to 1989 served as its director, as well as an active participant of the Epsilon salon, a famous Moscow underground literary group.
Novels by Gennady Katsov were published in the journal ”Mitin”; his articles, short stories, plays and poems were published in the anthology “Chernovik” (New York), and a selection of his poems was included in the first issue of the literary magazine "Khreschatyk" (Kiev) .
Since 1989 Gennady Katsov lives and works in the United States. From 1989 to 1991, Katsov, along with Sergei Dovlatov and Alexander Genis worked at the Radio Liberty, where he produced segments on modern culture in Peter Weil’s program entitled Above the Barriers. Gennady was regularly published in the daily newspaper The New Russian Word, as well as in Russian-American literary almanac Slovo \ Word. He was the publisher and the editor-in-chief of a weekly Russian language newspaper The Printed Organ in New York (1994-1998), the editor-in-chief of the Guide to New York (issued quarterly, 1997-1998), the weekly magazine Telenedelya (2000-2004), as well as the weekly magazine Metro (2004-2007).
In 1995-1997 Katsov was a founder and co-owner of Russian avant-garde café «Anyway» in Manhattan. He had a prominent role in the weekly TV segment New York: history and geography in Dmitry Poletaev’s program of Good Evening, America! (Nationwide television EABC, New York, 1997-1999), a weekly hour radio "Morning Solyanka" on Russian-American radio RTN / WMNB (1998-2000), served as editor-in- chief for RTN / WMNB radio (2000-2003).
Since 2000 Gennady Katsov authors and anchors the daily political and economic 30-minute TV program entitled Not a Day Without a Line - an overview of the American press on Russian-American television RTN / WMNB. Starting in 2003 Gennady is the author and a host of the daily TV program A Morning Run, as well and the Sunday program Press Club aired on the same channel.
As of 2010 – Gennady Katsov is the owner and an editor-in-chief of the Russian-American Internet news portal RUNYweb.com, which includes the Encyclopedia of Russian America. Gennady periodically takes part in the BBC’s program the Fifth Floor.
In 2011, after a nearly an eighteen-year hiatus, Gennady got back to his poetic activities. His book entitled Slovosfera, which is composed of poetic texts dedicated to the masterpieces of art, was published at the end of April 2013. After that three more books of Gennady Katsov has been published: “Between the Ceiling and the Floor” (New York), “365 Days around the Sun” (New York) and “25 years with the right to correspondence” (Moscow). All - poetry collections in Russian.