Bakhyt Kenjeev

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Bakhyt Shkurullaevich Kenjeev (Kenzheyev,

Kazakh
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Life

In 1953 his parents moved to Moscow. He graduated from

Lomonosov Moscow State University with an equivalent of an M.S. degree in chemistry. In 1975 he was a founding member of the "Moscow Time" group of poets, with Alexei Tsvetkov, Alexander Soprovsky, and Sergey Gandlevsky.[2]

He is a regular guest at numerous poetry festivals, including Moskow Bienale, Kievskie Lavry, Leningradskie Mosty, Blue Metropolis Montreal festival,[3] and the international poetry festival in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He lives in [New York City], and Moscow.[4][5]

Awards

  • 2003 Moscow-Transit Poetry Prize[6]

Works

English Translations

  • "Rain Pours Down in Rome, Repeating", West Branch, J. Kayes, Bucknell University
  • Slava Muchnick, ed. (September 7, 2009). Salt Crystals on an Axe: Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry in Congruent Translation: A Bilingual Mini-Anthology. Translator Alex Shafarenko. Ancient Purple Translations. .

Poetry

Novels

References