Bakhyt Kenjeev

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

Life

In 1953 his parents moved to Moscow. He graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University with a 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.

He appeared at the 2006 Blue Metropolis Montreal festival. He lives in Montreal, New York City, and Moscow.

Awards

• 2003 Moscow-Transit Poetry Prize

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)

External links

This article incorporates information from the revision as of 2010-01-18 of the equivalent article on the Russian Wikipedia.