Английская Википедия:Alexander Kushner
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Alexander Semyonovich Kushner (Шаблон:Lang-ru) is a Russian poet from Saint Petersburg.
Biography
Kushner was born in Leningrad into a Russian-Jewish family; his father was a naval engineer. Alexandr graduated from the Russian language and literature school of the city's teacher-training Herzen University, and later, between 1959 and 1969, taught Russian literature. After that, he became a full-time writer and poet. Since then he published about 15 collections of his poetry and two books of his essays. In 1965 he became a member of the Writers' Union, in 1987 joined the Russian PEN Center. He is also editor-in-chief of Biblioteka poeta (the "Library of the Poet" series). His only son Eugene and his family live in Israel.
In October 1993, he signed the Letter of Forty-Two.[1]
His poetry resembles that of Acmeists. He usually doesn't write in free verse and seldom experiments or tries to elaborate a new poetic form, preferring to write in a classic, 19th century-like style. The Nobel Prize winner Brodsky once called Kushner "one of the best lyrical poets of the 20th century", adding that his name "is to stand in the line of names dear to the heart of every native Russian speaker"[2]
Translations of Kushner's poetry into English, Italian and Dutch were published in book form; several poems were also translated to German, French, Japanese, Hebrew, Czech, and Bulgarian.
Bibliography
Books of verse
- The First Impression (Шаблон:Lang-ru) 1962.
- The Night Watch (Шаблон:Lang-ru) 1966.
- Omens (Шаблон:Lang-ru) 1969.
- The Writing (Шаблон:Lang-ru) 1974.
- The Direct Speech (Шаблон:Lang-ru) 1975.
- The Voice (Шаблон:Lang-ru) 1978.
- Tavrichesky Garden (Шаблон:Lang-ru) 1984.
- Day Dreams (Шаблон:Lang-ru) 1986.
- The Fence Hedge (Шаблон:Lang-ru) 1988.
- Night Music (Шаблон:Lang-ru) 1991.
- On the Dark Star (Шаблон:Lang-ru) 1994.
- The Milfoil (Шаблон:Lang-ru) 1998.
- Bank of Clouds (Шаблон:Lang-ru) 2000.
- Bushes (Шаблон:Lang-ru) 2002.
- The Cold May (Шаблон:Lang-ru) 2005.
- In the New Century (Шаблон:Lang-ru) 2006.
- One Cannot Choose Times...(five decades) (Шаблон:Lang-ru) 2007.
- Apollo in the Grass. 2015.
Works in prose
- Apollo under Snow (Шаблон:Lang-ru)
- Wave and Stone (Шаблон:Lang-ru)
- The Fifth Element (selected verse and articles) (Шаблон:Lang-ru)
Awards
His numerous awards include the Russian National Award (1996) and the prestigious Pushkin Prize for poetry, bestowed on him by Russian president Vladimir Putin in 2001. [1]
Also
- «North Palmira» (1995).
- Award of Novy Mir magazine (1997).
- Tepfer fond Pushkin award (1998).
- Award of Tsarskoe selo (2004).
- "Poet" award (2005).
References
External links
- Short biography
- Petersburg Perspectives: Alexander Kushner has been described by Joseph Brodsky as one of the best lyric poets of the 20th century
- Времена не выбирают in verse English translation
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
- ↑ Brodsky's preface in Selected Verse of Kushner, St. Petersburg: Khudozhetvennaya literatura
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