Famous poet Bakhyt Kenzheev passed away at the age of 73. Poet Veronika Dolina and poet Sergei Gandlevsky reported this on their pages in social networks.
Kenzheev died on the night of June 26 in a New York hospital following a serious illness.
Kenzheev was born in Shymkent (Shymkent), Kazakh SSR. He made his debut as a poet in 1977 in the collective collection “Lenin Mountains”. Poems of MSU poets.” His poems were also published in Komsomolskaya Pravda, Yunost, Moskovsky Komsomolets and he was a member of the Moscow Time poetry group, but the first book of his poems was published in the USA in 1984. Kazakh, English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Ukrainian , translations into Chinese and Swedish have been published.
He immigrated to Canada in 1982 and has lived in New York since 2006.
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