Dmitri Prigov

Dmitri Prigov
Prigov in 2005
Native name
Дмитрий Александрович Пригов
Born(1940-11-05)5 November 1940
Died16 July 2007(2007-07-16) (aged 66)
OccupationWriter, artist
NationalityRussian
Citizenship Soviet Union (1940–1991) → Russian Federation (1991–2007)
PeriodContemporary
Literary movementRussian postmodernism
Moscow Conceptualists

Dmitri Aleksandrovich Prigov (Russian: Дми́трий Алекса́ндрович При́гов, 5 November 1940 – 16 July 2007) was a Russian writer and artist. Prigov was part of the unofficial Moscow Conceptualists during the era of the Soviet Union and was briefly sent to a psychiatric hospital in 1986.