Maxim AMELIN (Russia) is a poet, scholar of poetry, essayist, translator and publisher. He graduated from the Commercial College in Kursk, served in the Soviet Army and studied at the Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow. He has published four books of poetry and a collection of poems, articles and essays. He has translated Greek and Latin classics (Pindar, Catullus and Carmina Priapea) and contemporary Georgian, Italian and Ukrainian poets. Amelin edited and annotated editions of Russian poets from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, as well as numerous poetry anthologies of Russian and Georgian poetry. He was the initiator and curator of the Anthology of Contemporary Poetry of the Peoples of Russia in 57 languages. Amelin is a member of the Russian PEN-Club and the Guild of Literary Translators. He serves as editor-in-chief of OGI Publishing House.
馬克西姆．阿梅林（俄羅斯），詩人，隨筆作家、翻譯家、詩歌研究者與出版人，著有四本詩集及一部收錄詩歌、論文、隨筆的合集。畢業於庫爾斯克商學院，曾於軍隊服役，在莫斯科高爾基文學院學習。譯有古希臘與拉丁詩歌（品達、卡圖盧斯和《普里阿普斯之書》）及當代格魯吉亞、意大利、烏克蘭詩人的作品。他選編了十八至二十世紀俄國詩人的作品集及當代俄羅斯和格魯吉亞詩歌選集，並加上註釋。他是《當代俄羅斯各民族詩選》的發起人和編者，該詩選被譯為五十七種語言。阿梅林是俄羅斯筆會及「文學翻譯大師」協會會員，身兼「人文聯合出版社」（OGI）總編。