Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko[1] (18 July 1932 – 1 April 2017)[2] was a Soviet and Russian poet. He was also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor and director of several movies.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko | |
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| Born | Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Gangnus 18 July 1932 Zima Junction, Siberia, USSR |
| Died | 1 April 2017 (aged 84) Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States |
| Occupation | Poet, writer, film director, publisher |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Period | 1949-2017 |
| Notable works | Babi Yar |
| Children | 5 sons |
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Richard Nixon and Yevgeny Yevtushenko
In 1961, he wrote a poem Babi Yar describing mass murder of the Holocaust at Babi Yar during World War II.
Yevtushenko died of heart failure after having kidney surgery at a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma on 1 April 2017, aged 84.[3]
References
- Russian: Евгений Александрович Евтушенко (also transliterated as Evgenii Alexandrovich Evtushenko, Yevgeniy Yevtushenko, or Evgeny Evtushenko).
- "Раздел второй Основные даты жизни и творчества Е. А. Евтушенко (1932-1996 гг.) ["Section Two Key dates in the life and creativity of E. A. Evtushenko (1932-1996 biennium]". russofile.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2016-10-01. Retrieved 2017-04-02.
- "Acclaimed Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko dies in Oklahoma". washingtonpost.com. Archived from the original on 2 April 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
Other websites
Quotations related to Yevgeny Yevtushenko at Wikiquote
Media related to Evgeny Evtushenko at Wikimedia Commons
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko poetry at Stihipoeta.ru (in Russian)
- Biography Archived 2011-06-08 at the Wayback Machine – Canadian Encyclopedia
- Olga Carlisle (Spring–Summer 1965). "Yevgeny Yevtushenko, The Art of Poetry No. 7". The Paris Review. Spring-Summer 1965 (34).
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko online archive Archived 2005-11-02 at the Wayback Machine
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko on IMDb
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Collected Poems in English. Part 1
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Collected Poems in English. Part 2
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Zima Station Poem
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko. "May God" ("Дай Бог") (English translation)
- Chingiz Aitmatov on Yevgeny Yevtushenko Archived 2007-02-11 at the Wayback Machine
- Andrey Voznesensky's article on Yevgeny Yevtushenko Archived 2008-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
- Audio/Video recordings of a Poetry Reading by Yevgeny Yevtushenko at the University of Chicago
- The Bookplate Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collection Division at the Library of Congress contains materials related to the career of Yevtushenko.
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