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Petr Lvovich Vayl
Петр Вайль
Birth at
29 September 1949
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Soviet and American journalist, writer, radio host Petr Lvovich Weil was born in Riga on September 29, 1949.
Graduated from Moscow Polygraphic Institute, editorial faculty. In 1977, Peter Weil emigrated to the United States. There, in New York, he worked with expat periodicals, most famously The New American. The editor-in-chief of this newspaper was Russian émigré writer Sergei Dovlatov, with whom Peter Weil worked for thirteen years. Here in the United States, the writer met Joseph Brodsky, and
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Soviet and American journalist, writer, radio host Petr Lvovich Weil was born in Riga on September 29, 1949.
Graduated from Moscow Polygraphic Institute, editorial faculty. In 1977, Peter Weil emigrated to the United States. There, in New York, he worked with expat periodicals, most famously The New American. The editor-in-chief of this newspaper was Russian émigré writer Sergei Dovlatov, with whom Peter Weil worked for thirteen years. Here in the United States, the writer met Joseph Brodsky, and later he published two collections of poems Brodsky: “Cross Country” and “Christmas Poems”.
The writer lived in the United States until 1995. There he wrote his most famous books: “The Genius of the Place”, “Map of the Motherland”, “Poems About Me”. Also, Peter Weil wrote a number of works in co-authorship with Alexander Genis: “60th: The World of the Soviet Man”, “Americana”, “Russian cuisine in exile”, “Native speech”.
Since 1988, Petr Weil has worked for Radio Liberty in the New York bureau, where he later headed the Russian service department. When Peter Weil left America and came to Prague, he also got a job as deputy director of the Russian Information Service, then headed thematic programs on the same radio.
The program “Genius of the Place with Peter Weil” was awarded at the International Festival of Television Programs and Films with a special jury prize “For the Development of Educational Traditions of Television”.
For his work, Peter Weil was awarded several literary awards. He was the founder of the Academy of Russian Modern Literature, was a member of the editorial board of the journals “Foreign Literature” and “Banner”.
Petr Weil died in Prague on December 7, 2009 from a heart attack. He was buried in Venice.