Yevgeny Rein
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Yevgeny Borisovich Rein (Russian: Евгений Борисович Рейн; born December 29, 1935, in Leningrad) is a Russian poet and writer. His poetry won the State Prize of Russia (1997), Pushkin Prize of Russia, and Tsarskoe Selo Art Prize (1997).
In 1960s, along with Joseph Brodsky, Dmitri Bobyshev, and Anatoly Naiman, he was one of the Akhmatova's Orphans, a well-known poetic group from Leningrad. Since 1979 Rein participaed to the publication of "Metropol" almanach. His poems were published in samizdat and Soviet underground papers.
His first book was published in 1984 (The Names of Bridges) after a "careful" censorship. A well-known poet and free-thinker, the elder friend of Joseph Brodsky and Sergei Dovlatov, he became a member of Russian Writer's Union only in 1987, during the perestroika.
Rein now lives in Moscow.
[edit] Books
- Selected poems (preface by J. Brodsky, V. Kulle, M., SPb, 2001
- Its boring without Dovlatov, SPb, 1997
[edit] External links
- Evgeny Rein on Poetry International Web
- Evgeny Rein. Selected poems. Preface by Joseph Brodsky. Edited by Valentina Polukhina ISBN 1852245239
- Poetry by Evgeny Rein (Russian) [1]
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