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Akhmadulina,
Bella
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Bella (Izabella) Akhatovna Akhmadulina (Russian: ´ (´) ´ ´, 10 April 1937 – 29 November 2010) was a Soviet and Russian poet, short story writer and translator known for her apolitical writing stance. She was part of the Russian New Wave literary movement. Akhmadulina was cited by Joseph Brodsky as the best living poet in the Russian language when she was alive.. Russian poet
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Akhmatova,
Anna
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One of the greatest Russian poets of the 20th-century.. Russian poet
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Andersch,
Alfred
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Alfred Hellmuth Andersch (4 February 1914 – 21 February 1980) was a German writer, publisher, and radio editor. The son of a conservative East Prussian army officer, he was born in Munich, Germany and died in Berzona, Ticino, Switzerland. Martin Andersch, his brother, was also a writer.. German writer publisher.
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Aygi,
Gennady
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Gennadiy Nikolaevich Aygi (Russian: , Chuvash: ; 21 August 1934 - 21 February 2006, Moscow) was a Chuvash poet and a translator. His poetry is written both in Chuvash and in Russian.. Russian poet
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Balmont,
Konstantin
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Konstantin Dmitriyevich Balmont (Russian: ´ ´ ') (15 June 1867 — December 23, 1942) was a Russian symbolist poet, translator, one of the major figures of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.. Russian symbolist poet and translator
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Blok,
Aleksandr
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Brodsky,
Joseph
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Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky was a Soviet-Russian-American poet and essayist. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 for alleged "social parasitism" and settled in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters. He taught thereafter at universities including those at Yale, Cambridge and Michigan. Brodsky was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity". He was appointed American Poet Laureate in 1991.. Russian poet and essayist
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Brovka,
Petrus
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Pyotr Ustinovich Brovka (Belarusian: ´ ´, Russian: ´ ´; 25 June 1905, Putilkovichi – 24 March 1980, Minsk) was a Soviet Belarusian poet, more commonly recognized by his literary pseudonym Petrus Brovka (also transliterated from Belarusian as Piatrus Brovka or Pjatrus Brouka).. Soviet Belarusian poet
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Bryusov,
Valeri
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Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov (Russian: ´ ´ ´) (December 13 1873 – October 9, 1924) was a Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian. He was one of the principal members of the Russian Symbolist movement.. poet novelist critic
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Bunin,
Ivan
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Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (Russian: ´ ´ ´; 22 October 1870 – 8 November 1953) was the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. The texture of his poems and stories, sometimes referred to as "Bunin brocade", is one of the richest in the language. The Soviet writer K.G. Paustovsky called the 1930 novel The Life of Arseniev an apex of the whole of Russian prose and "one of the most remarkable phenomena of the world literature".. Russian poet and novelist
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Cälil,
Musa
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Musa Cälil (pronounced ; Arabic: ; Jaalif: Musa Çlil; Cyrillic: ; full name: Musa Mostafa uli Cälilev, Cyrillic: ; Russian: , , Musa Dzhalil, Musa Mustafovich Zalyalov, also anglicized as Mussa Jalil ; February 15, 1906 – August 25, 1944) was a Soviet Tatar poet and resistance fighter. He is the only poet of the Soviet Union who was simultaneously awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union award for his resistance fighting, and the Lenin Prize for authoring The Moabit Notebooks; both the awards were awarded to him posthumously.. Soviet Tatar poet and resistance fighter
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Davydov,
Denis
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Denis Vasilyevich Davydov (Russian: ´ ´ ´; 27 July 1784 – 4 May 1839) was a Russian soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars who invented a specific genre – hussar poetry noted for its hedonism and bravado – and spectacularly designed his own life to illustrate such poetry.. Russian soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars; noted for hussar poetry
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Derieva,
Regina
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Regina Derieva is a Russian poet and writer who has published twenty books of poetry, essays, and prose. Derieva currently lives in Sweden.. Russian poet and writer
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Gorodetsky,
Sergei
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Sergey Mitrofanovich Gorodetsky (Russian: ´ ´ ´; January 17 1884–June 8, 1967) was a Russian poet, one of the founders (together with Nikolay Gumilev) of Guild of Poets (" ").. Russian poet
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Gumilyov,
Nikolay
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Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilev (Russian: ´ ´, April 15 NS 1886 – August 1921) was an influential Russian poet who founded the acmeism movement.. Russian poet who founded the acmeism movement
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Isahakyan,
Avetik
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Avetik Isahakyan (Armenian: ; Russian: ; October 31 1875), Ghazarapat, near Aleksandropol, current Gyumri, Russian Empire – October 17, 1957, Yerevan) was a prominent Armenian lyric poet, writer, academian and public activist.. an Armenian lyric poet
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Kaminsky,
Ilya
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Ilya Kaminsky (born April 18, 1977 in Odessa, Soviet Union, now Ukraine) is a Russian-American poet, critic, translator and professor. He began to write poetry seriously as a teenager in Odessa, publishing a chapbook in Russian entitled The Blessed City. His first published poetry collection in English was a chapbook, Musica Humana (Chapiteau Press, 2002). His second collection in English, Dancing in Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004), earned him a 2005 Whiting Writers' Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Metcalf Award, the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and the Dorset Prize, and was named the 2005 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year in Poetry. In 2008, he was awarded a Lannan Literary Fellowship. His poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The Kenyon Review, New Republic, Harvard Review, Poetry.. Russian-American poet critic translator and professor
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Khlebnikov,
Velemir
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Velimir Khlebnikov (Russian: ´ ´; first name also spelled Velemir; last name also spelled Chlebnikov, Hlebnikov, Xlebnikov), pseudonym of Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov (9 November 1885 (28 October 1885 (O.S.)) – 28 June 1922), was a central part of the Russian Futurist movement, but his work and influence stretch far beyond it.. Russian poet and playwright; part of the Russian Futurist movement
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Khodasevich,
Vladislav
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Vladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevich (Russian: ) (May 16, 1886 - June 14, 1939) was an influential Russian poet and literary critic who presided over the Berlin circle of Russian emigre litterateurs.. Russian poet and literary critic
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Kinkel,
Gottfried
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Johann Gottfried Kinkel (August 11, 1815 - November 13, 1882) was a German poet also noted for his revolutionary activities and his escape from a Prussian prison in Spandau with the help of his friend Carl Schurz.. German poet and revolutionary
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Kudryavitsky,
Anatoly
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Anthony Kudryavitsky born in Moscow in 1954, better known by his pen name Anatoly Kudryavitsky (Russian ), is a Russian-Irish novelist, poet and literary translator.. Russian Irish novelist poet and literary translator
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Lermontov,
Mikhail
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Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (Russian: ´ ´ ´, IPA: ; October 15 1814 – July 27 1841), a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", has become the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837. Lermontov is considered the supreme poet of Russian literature side by side with Pushkin and the greatest figure of Russian Romanticism. His influence on later Russian literature is still felt in modern times, not only through his poetry, but also through his prose, which has founded the tradition of Russian psychological novel.. Russian Romantic writer poet and painter
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Mandelstam,
Osip
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Mayakovsky,
Vladimir
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. Russian and Soviet poet and playwright
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Miegel,
Agnes
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Agnes Miegel (9 March 1879 in Königsberg, East Prussia - 26 October 1964 in Bad Salzuflen, Germany) was a German author, journalist, and poet. She received the Kleist Prize for lyric in 1913, the Herder Prize in 1936, the Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt in 1940, the literature prize of the Bavarian Academy of Art (Literaturpreis der Bayerischen Akademie der Künste) in 1959 and the WestPrussian Cultural Prize in 1962. She was a member of the German Academy of Poetry (Deutsche Akademie der Dichtung) and an honorary doctorate of the University of Königsberg. German author journalist and poet
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