Born on February 3, 1946 in Potsdam, Germany, he has lived in St. Petersburg, Russia since 1969. He received the Andrey Bely Independent Literary Prize in 1978, the Electronic Text Award ('for poetry from Phosphor'), Post Modern Culture (PMC) in 1993, and 'The Franc-tireur Silver Bullet', International Literary Prize in 2009. His writings have been translated and published in anthologies and journals in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Finland, Belgium, Sweden, Japan, Brazil and the United States.