Well-known Russian émigré poet dies in New York

The well-known Russian poet who emigrated from the nation within the Nineteen Eighties, Bakhyt Kenzheev, died in New York on the age of 73. It was reported on their pages on social networks by the poet and poet Veronika Dolina, the poet Sergei Gandlevsky, in addition to the Minister of Tradition and Data of Kazakhstan Aida Balaeva.

“The piercing poetry of Bakhyt Kenzheev was admired by admirers of excessive literature on either side of the ocean.” Distinctive ability and glorious command of phrases made Bakhyt Shukurullaevich a residing traditional of world literature. The poet’s work has been translated into many languages ​​of the world, together with Kazakh,” – wrote Balaeva.

She expressed her condolences to the poet’s household and pals.

In keeping with the Israeli portal Newsru, Bakhyt Kenzheev died at Lenox Hill Hospital after a critical sickness.

Kenzheev was born within the metropolis of Chimkent, Kazakh USSR in 1950. The publication of his poems within the assortment “Lenin Mountains: Poems by Poets of Moscow State College,” printed in 1977, is taken into account the primary his poetic journey. He was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was additionally a laureate of the Anti-Booker, Moscow-Transit and Russian Prize literary prizes.

In 1982, the poet emigrated to Canada, and since 2006 he has been residing in New York.