Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (also transliterated as Evgenii Alexandrovich Evtushenko, Yevgeniy Yevtushenko, or Evgeny Evtushenko). (18 July 1932 – 1 April 2017) was a Soviet and Russian poet. He was also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor and director of several movies. 

In 1961, he wrote a poem Babi Yar describing mass murder of the Holocaust at Babi Yar during World War II.

Yevtushenko died of heart failure after having kidney surgery at a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma on 1 April 2017, aged 84.

References

Other websites

 Yevgeny Yevtushenko poetry at Stihipoeta.ru  
 Biography  – Canadian Encyclopedia

 Yevgeny Yevtushenko online archive 

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Collected Poems in English. Part 1
 Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Collected Poems in English. Part 2
  Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Zima Station Poem 
 Yevgeny Yevtushenko. "May God" ("Дай Бог") (English translation) 
 Chingiz Aitmatov on Yevgeny  Yevtushenko 
 Andrey Voznesensky's article on Yevgeny Yevtushenko 
 Audio/Video recordings of a Poetry Reading by Yevgeny Yevtushenko at the University of Chicago
 The Bookplate Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collection Division at the Library of Congress contains materials related to the career of Yevtushenko.

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