Poet, playwright, prose writer, essayist, and translator. Born in 1959 in Leningrad. Graduated from the Leningrad Finance and Economics Institute. In the 1980s, he was a co-founder of the nonconformist art group "Camera Obscura" ("Kamera Khraneniya"). From 1991, he lived in Frankfurt am Main. He was one of the leading contributors to the program "Poverh barierov" ("Over the Barriers") on Radio Liberty. During his lifetime, Yuryev published sixteen books in Russian and thirteen in German, including poetry, prose, essays, and translations. Recipient of the Hilda Domin Prize (2010), among others. His poems and plays have been translated into numerous languages. His novel Vineta was published posthumously (2024). In 2021, a two-volume collected poems of Oleg Yuryev appeared. He died in 2018 in Germany and is buried in St. Petersburg. A collected plays of Oleg Yuryev is currently in preparation.