Gennadiy Aygi
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He was born in the village of Shaimurzino (Çĕnyal), Chuvashia (USSR), moved to Moscow in 1953 and stayed there for the rest of his life.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Aygi started writing poetry in the Chuvash language in 1958.
Among the recognitions he has won are the Andrey Bely Prize (1987), the Pasternak Prize (2000, the first to be awarded this), the Prize of the French Academy (1972), the Petrarch Prize (1993), the Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings in 1994 and the Jan Smrek Prize (Bratislava, Slovakia).
In 2003 Aygi participated in the "international literature festival berlin" Template:Webarchive.
Sofia Gubaidulina set several of his poems to music in her cycle Jetzt immer Schnee ("Now always snow").
His son Aleksey Aygi is a composer.
References
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External links
- Month-long tribute to Aygi Template:Webarchive essay and collection of links
- Interview with Aygi's friend and translator Peter France at New Directions
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- Folk poets of Chuvashia
- Russian male poets
- Russian surrealist writers
- Surrealist poets
- Chuvash-language poets
- Velimir Khlebnikov scholars
- 1934 births
- 2006 deaths
- Chuvash writers
- Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath laureates
- 20th-century Russian poets
- People from Batyrevsky District
- 20th-century Russian male writers
- Maxim Gorky Literature Institute alumni