- Genrikh Sapgir
Genrikh Sapgir (born in
Biysk in 1928, died inMoscow in 1999) was a Russian poet and fiction writer.Biography
He was born in Biysk of
Jewish parents, and lived inMoscow from early childhood.A Samizdat Writer
"Genrikh Sapgir is the most prominent figure of the writers that came to be associated with the now well-known Lianosovo group, which also included
Vsevolod Nekrasov andIgor Kholin . These Moscow poets sought out new models and positions and exploited the possibilities of inserting common speech directly in their texts. Each of them had a Dostoyevskian eye for everyday Russian life, which made their work immediately accessible." [Kudryavitsky, A. A Night in the Nabokov Hotel: 20 Contemporary Poets from Russia]From 1959 he published his poetry for children. His other poems appeared only in émigré magazines, such as Continent and Strelets/The Archer.
During the Perestroyka Period
Since 1989 his poetry, short stories, plays and novels have been widely published in
Russia . Three volumes of his Collected Poems appeared at the end of 1990s. He representedRussia at numerous international festivals of poetry, his work has been published in translation throughout the world. The English translations of his [http://www.mnogoportret.ru/sapgir_psalms.html Psalms] by Jim Kates ofNew Hampshire have been widely anthologised and warmly received. He has also been translated to English byAnatoly Kudryavitsky [http://sapgir.blogspot.com] and Artyom Kotenko & Anthony Weir [http://www.beyond-the-pale.co.uk/sapgir.htm] Andrew Bromfield published his translations of Sapgir's [http://www.russianpress.com/glas/sapgir.html 'Very Short Stories'] . Sapgir was the recipient of various awards including thePushkin Prize for poetry. In 1999 he died of a heart attack in a Moscow trolley-bus on his way to the launch of the anthology of contemporary Russian poetry entitled "Poetry of Silence". In Sapgir's biography published in 2004, David Shrayer-Petrov called him an "avant-garde classic" [Shrayer, M., Shrayer-Petrov, D. Генрих Сапгир: Классик авангарда. [Genrikh Sapgir: An avant-garde classic] . Dmitri Bulanin Publishing, St Petersburg, 2004] . Sapgir is regarded by many as one of the most importantMoscow poets of the second half of the 20th century.ee also
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Losharik (disambiguation) References
External links
* [http://www.sapgir.narod.ru] Official website (in Russian)
* [http://www.mnogoportret.ru/sapgir_psalms.html] Psalms in English transl. by Jim Kates
* [http://sapgir.blogspot.com] Five poems in English transl. by Anatoly Kudryavitsky
* [http://www.beyond-the-pale.co.uk/sapgir.htm] Eight poems in English transl. by Artyom Kotenko & Anthony Weir
* [http://www.russianpress.com/glas/sapgir.html] Very short stories in English transl. by Andrew Bromfield
* [http://www.kudryavitsky.narod.ru/interview.html Ivan Karamazov's interview with Anatoly Kudryavitsky about Sapgir] (in Russian)About Sapgir
* Smith, A. 'Genrikh Sapgir: Klassik avangarda.'
The Slavonic and East European Review , Volume 83, Number 4, 1 October 2005, pp. 746-747(2)
* Kudryavitsky, A. A Night in the Nabokov Hotel: 20 Contemporary Poets from Russia, Introduction, pp. 1-2.
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