Poet Bakhyt Kenzheev died at the age of 74. In this respect reports RTVI refers to the friend and colleague of the deceased, the poet Sergei Gandlevsky.
Gandlevsky did not specify the cause of Kenzheev’s death.
Bakhyt Kenzheev was born in 1950 in Shymkent (Kazakhstan); he moved with his family to Moscow in preschool age. His poems were first published in 1977 in the collection “Lenin Mountains: Poems of Moscow State University Poets”.
In his youth, he attended a literary studio headed by Igor Volgin, where he met the poets Tsvetkov, Soprovsky and Gandlevsky – this creative union published the anthology “Moscow Time”.
In 1982, Kenzheev emigrated to Canada, where two years later he published his first collection of poems. She moved to the USA in 2008. He described himself as a “citizen of the Russian Empire temporarily living abroad.” He often visited Russia.
Kenzheev has published more than 20 books, was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, was the winner of the Russia Prize and the Anti-Booker and Moscow-Transit literary awards. Translations into Kazakh, English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Ukrainian, Chinese and Swedish have been published.
The writer was a member of the Russian PEN Club, a member of the First Prize jury and the international Turkish poetry translation competition “Ak Torna”.
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Source: Gazeta
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