Nahum Korzhavin
Nahum (Naum) Moiseyevich Korzhavin (real surname Mandel; 14 October 1925 – 22 June 2018) was a Russian poet of Jewish descent, a dissident and emigrant who moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1973 and lived there 43 years. He spent the last two years of his life in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to be near family. Korzhavin was given the Big Book National Award-2006 for his contribution to literature.
Also recorded as Naum Moiseyevich Mandel
Nahum Korzhavin
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- Name
- Naum Moiseyevich Korzhavin
- Birth Name
- Naum Moiseyevich Mandel
- Born
- 14 October 1925
- Birthplace
- Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
- Died
- 22 June 2018
- Place of death
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
- Occupation
- writer
- Education
- Maxim Gorky Literature Institute
- Awards
- Big Book National Award (2006)
- Full name
- Нехем'я Мусієвич Мандель.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union and United States.
- Fields
- poetry and literature.
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Nahum (Naum) Moiseyevich Korzhavin (real surname Mandel; 14 October 1925 – 22 June 2018) was a Russian poet of Jewish descent, a dissident and emigrant who moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1973 and lived there 43 years. He spent the last two years of his life in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to be near family. Korzhavin was given the Big Book National Award-2006 for his contribution to literature.
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He was the only Big Book finalist to get into the short-list with a book of memoirs. Korzhavin created a vivid detailed picture of his life and his country in his prose work under the expressive title In Temptations of the Bloody Epoch. In 2005 Korzhavin participated in They Chose Freedom, a four-part television documentary on the history of the Soviet dissident movement.
Слева направо поэты Михаил Л. Герштейн и Наум Коржавин, Бостон 2012
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• Name — Naum Moiseyevich Korzhavin • Native Name — Наум Моисеевич Коржавин • Birth Name — Naum Moiseyevich Mandel • Born — 14 October 1925 • Birthplace — Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union • Died — 22 June 2018 • Place of death — Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States • Occupation — writer • Language — Russian • Citizenship — Soviet Union, United States • Education — Maxim Gorky Literature Institute • Genre — poetry, essays, memoirs • Awards — Big Book National Award (2006)
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- 1.Умер Наум Коржавин. Газета.Ru.
- 2.СЕМИНАР ЮНЫХ ПОЭТОВ. 12 January 2014.
- 3.Кантор, Максим. Совок и веник (сборник). Litres. 20 December 2018. 978-5457172678.
- 4.Умер поэт Наум Коржавин
- 5.Marson, James. Radical Heart Beats Anew. The Moscow Times. 18 December 2007.
- 6.Mydans, Seth. Writing Without Roots. The New York Times. 1. 23 September 1984.
- 7.Науму Коржавину 90. Биографический очерк. Журнал "Чайка". 13 October 2015.
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