Felix Krivin

Felix Krivin was a Soviet, Ukrainian and Israeli writer and poet known for humorous intellectual prose, who also wrote screenplays.

1928 to 2016Humorous intellectual proseThe half-legends storiesInterludes for Arkady Raikin

Born: 11 June 1928, Mariupol
Died: 24 December 2016, Beersheba
Occupation: poet, children's writer, writer, prose writer
Education: National Pedagogical Dragomanov University

Felix Krivin was born in 1928 in Mariupol

Felix Krivin was born on June 11, 1928, to a Jewish family in Mariupol. The family moved to Odessa in 1933. After the wartime evacuation he moved to Izmail in 1945 and finished evening school there.

In Izmail he worked as a mechanic on a Danube barge, then as a night proofreader at a local newspaper, where his first poems appeared. He also worked in regional radio. He graduated from the Kiev State Pedagogical Institute in 1951.

He taught in Mariupol from 1951 to 1954. He later moved to Uzhhorod and worked as an editor at a regional publishing house. He joined the Writers' Union of Ukraine in 1962, published more than 25 books, and wrote interludes for the comedian Arkady Raikin.

In 1998 he settled with his wife in Beersheba, Israel. He died on December 24, 2016. In 2018 some of his half-legends were published in English for the first time.