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8 unusual facts about Yevgeny Yevtushenko


American Poetry Center

Over 100 poets, editors, scholars, and students from Russia and the United States participated in this first-ever exchange, including poets Richard Wilbur, John Ashbery, Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Andrei Voznesensky.

D. M. Thomas

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, A dove in Santiago : A novella in verse (Secker and Warburg, 1982)

Dimitry Gerrman

His sculptures can be found in private collections in the United States, France, Japan, England, China, Germany, Russia, Brazil, Israel, Switzerland and Venezuela, including Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Jennifer Lopez, Simon Cowell, Janusz Kaminski, Senator Barbara Mikulski, amongst others.

Ion Lazarevich Degen

Yevgeny Yevtushenko called these eight lines brilliant, stunning in a brutal force of truth.

Louis Karchin

American Visions New World Records (NW-80583) Rustic Dances, American Visions: Two Songs on Poems of Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Cascades, Sonata da camera, A Way Separate…, String Quartet #2

Lyudmila Lyadova

She collaborated with poet George Hodosova to produce about one hundred songs, and also worked with poets Sergey Mikhalkov, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Nikolay Dorizo, L. Zubkova, B. Bryansk, Vladimir Petrov, T.N. Ponomareva and others.

Valeri Brainin


literary magazines "Znamya" (Moscow), "Novy Mir" (Moscow), "Arion" (Moscow), "Ogoniok" (Moscow), "Grani" (Frankfurt-am-Main), "Dvadtsat dva" (Jerusalem), "Kreshchatik" (Kiev), anthologies "Verses of the Century" (Moscow, compiled by Yevgeny Yevtushenko) and "Verses of the Century-2" (Moscow, compiled by Eugen V. Witkowsky).

Vladimir Kostrov

Vladimir Kostrov became one of the best known poets of the 1960s in the Soviet Union -- along with such writers as Andrei Voznesensky, Robert Rozhdestvensky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko -- but his poems did not have political motives.



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