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Biography of Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko
Name: Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko
Birth Date: July 18, 1933
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Zima, Siberia, Russia
Nationality: Russian
Gender: Male
Occupations: poet
Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), the most popular of contemporary Russian poets, was the leading literary spokesman for the generation of Russians who grew to maturity after Stalin's death in 1953.Yevgeny Yevtushenko was born on July 18, 1933, in Zima, Siberia, into a peasant family of mixed Ukrainian, Russian, and Tatar stock. His father, a geologist, and his mother, a geologist and singer, were divorced in the early 1940s, and Yevgeny spent his early childhood in Moscow with his mother and sister, Yelena.During World War II Yevtushenko was evacuated to Zima, returning to Moscow in 1944. Expelled from school on a false charge, he ran away to Kazakhstan; he joined his father on geological expeditions there and to the Altai, later returning to Moscow. As a youth, Yevtushenko was an athlete; his favorite sports were cycling, table tennis, and soccer.Early PoemsYevtushenko published his first poem in 1949 in a Soviet sports magazine and …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…as a zestful challenge.By 1996 he was back in New York, teaching Russian poetry and literature at Queens College. He chose to live among his students in Queens, rather than in Manhattan, with the majority of his more prosperous colleagues because he enjoyed the wide ethnic mix that Queens had always offered. Further Reading All of Yevtushenko's major works are available in English translation, in several versions of varying quality. Bratsk Station, and Other New Poems, translated by Tina Tupikina-Glaessner, Geoffrey Dutton, and Igor Mezhakoff-Koriakin, is a brilliant translation of Yevtushenko's major work. Another good source on Yevtushenko is his A Precocious Autobiography, translated by Andrew R. MacAndrew (1963). For critical commentary, see Marc Slonim's, Soviet Russian Literature: Writers and Problems (1964), and Olga Carlisle's, Poets on Street Corners: Portraits of Fifteen Russian Poets (1969).Fatal Half Measures, Random House, 1991.Atlantic Monthly, October, 1995. New York Times, November 12, 1995; February 7 1996.The Nation, March 20, 1995.Time, February 9, 1987.
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