Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko^[1] (18 July 1932 – 1 April 2017)^[2] was a Soviet and Russian poet. He was also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor and director of several movies.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevtushenko in 2015
Born	Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Gangnus (1932-07-18)18 July 1932 Zima Junction, Siberia, USSR
Died	1 April 2017(2017-04-01) (aged 84) Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Occupation	Poet, writer, film director, publisher
Nationality	Russian
Period	1949-2017
Notable works	Babi Yar
Children	5 sons
Signature
Website
Official website

Richard Nixon and Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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.^[3]

References

1. Russian: Евгений Александрович Евтушенко (also transliterated as Evgenii Alexandrovich Evtushenko, Yevgeniy Yevtushenko, or Evgeny Evtushenko).
2. "Раздел второй Основные даты жизни и творчества Е. А. Евтушенко (1932-1996 гг.) ["Section Two Key dates in the life and creativity of E. A. Evtushenko (1932-1996 biennium]". russofile.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2016-10-01. Retrieved 2017-04-02.
3. "Acclaimed Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko dies in Oklahoma". washingtonpost.com. Archived from the original on 2 April 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2017.

Other websites

Quotations related to Yevgeny Yevtushenko at Wikiquote Media related to Evgeny Evtushenko at Wikimedia Commons

• Yevgeny Yevtushenko poetry at Stihipoeta.ru (in Russian)
• Biography Archived 2011-06-08 at the Wayback Machine – Canadian Encyclopedia
• Olga Carlisle (Spring–Summer 1965). "Yevgeny Yevtushenko, The Art of Poetry No. 7". The Paris Review. Spring-Summer 1965 (34).
• Yevgeny Yevtushenko online archive Archived 2005-11-02 at the Wayback Machine
• Yevgeny Yevtushenko on IMDb
• 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 Archived 2007-02-11 at the Wayback Machine
• Andrey Voznesensky's article on Yevgeny Yevtushenko Archived 2008-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
• 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.