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German Lukomnikov is a poet, prose writer, performer, translator, author-performer of poems and songs, actor, publisher, and compiler of anthologies. He was born in 1962 in Baku, in the family of poet and outsider artist Gennady Ilyich Lukomnikov. Since 1975, he has lived in Moscow. Since 1990, he has completely dedicated himself to literature. Until 1994, he performed under the pseudonym Bonifatius. He is the author of 19 poetry books (now 20), the first of which was published in 1993. His works have been published in the newspapers "Humanitarian Fund" and "Circus 'Olympus'", magazines "Znamya", "New Literary Review", "Volga", "Solo", "Air", almanacs "Figli-migli" and "Time to Give Birth", anthologies "Zevgma" and "Samizdat of the Century", textbooks "Poetry", and many other publications. He was part of the literary club "Avtonik" and the Society of Masters of Arts "Crazy Madmen".

Winner of the Big Poetry Slam of Moscow (2006), the Russian-Ukrainian Slam in Lviv (2007), and the All-Russian Slam in Voronezh (2014), vice-champion of the World Slam in Paris (Coupe du Monde de Slam Poesie, 2015). In 2019-2022, he played the Holy Fool in D. Krymov's play based on Pushkin's "Boris Godunov". He is one of the compilers of the "Anthology of Russian Palindrome, Combinatorial and Manuscript Poetry" (2002) and the anthology "Russian Poems 1950-2000" (2010; the online version is still being updated). Laureate of the Korney Chukovsky Award for innovation in children's literature (2015) and the Andrei Bely Prize for services to literature (2024). A master of poetic minimalism, palindrome, and combinatorial poetry. His poems have been translated into 14 languages.