Bakhyt Kenjeev

Bakhyt Shkurullaevich Kenjeev (Kenzheyev, Russian: Бахыт Шкуруллаевич Кенже́ев; 2 August 1950, Shymkent, Kazakhstan) is a Russian poet^[1] of Kazakh descent.

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. ISBN 978-0-9563075-1-4. 

Poetry

• Избранная лирика 1970—1981 (1984 г.)
• Осень в Америке (1988 г.)
• Стихотворения (1995 г.)
• Сочинитель звезд: Книга новых стихотворений, М. 1997 (ISBN 5-85767-091-8)
• Снящаяся под утро: Книга стихотворений, М. 2000 (ISBN 5-900241-09-2)
• Из семи книг: Стихотворения, Независимая газета, М. 2000 (ISBN 5-86712-027-9)
• Невидимые: Стихи, М. 2004 (ISBN 5-94282-229-8)
• Вдали мерцает город Галич: Стихи мальчика Теодора, 2006 (ISBN 5-94128-126-9)
• Крепостной остывающих мест (2008)

Novels

• Плато (1992 г.)
• Иван Безуглов. Мещанский роман (1993 г.)
• Золото гоблинов: Романы («Младший брат», «Золото гоблинов»), Независимая газета, М 2000, (ISBN 5-86712-101-1)

References