Gennadiy Nikolaevich Aygi ( rus, Генна́дий Никола́евич Айги́, p=ɡʲɪˈnadʲɪj nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ ɐjˈɡʲi, a=Gyennadiy Nikolayevich Aygi.ru.vorb.oga, cv, Геннадий Николаевич Айхи; 21 August 1934 in Schaymurzino,

Batyrevsky District Batyrevsky District (russian: Ба́тыревский райо́н; cv, Патăрьел районӗ, ''Patăryel rayonĕ'') is an administrativeLaw #28 and municipalLaw #37 district (raion), one of the twenty-one in the Chuvash Republic, Russi ...

– 21 February 2006 in

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) was a Chuvash poet and a translator. His poetry is written both in Chuvash and in

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. He was born in the village of Shaimurzino (Çĕnyal),

Chuvashia Chuvashia (russian: Чувашия; cv, Чӑваш Ен), officially the Chuvash Republic — Chuvasia,; cv, Чӑваш Республики — Чӑваш Ен is a republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe. It is the homeland of the Chuv ...

(

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), moved to Moscow in 1953 and stayed there for the rest of his life. Aygi started writing poetry in the

Chuvash language Chuvash ( , ; , , ) is a Turkic language spoken in European Russia, primarily in the Chuvash Republic and adjacent areas. It is the only surviving member of the Oghur branch of Turkic languages, one of the two principal branches of the Turk ...

in 1958. Among the recognitions he has won are the

Andrey Bely Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev ( rus, Бори́с Никола́евич Буга́ев, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ bʊˈɡajɪf, a=Boris Nikolayevich Bugayev.ru.vorb.oga), better known by the pen name Andrei Bely or Biely ( rus, Андре ...

Prize (1987), the Pasternak Prize (2000, the first to be awarded this), the Prize of the French Academy (1972), the

Petrarch Prize Petrarca-Preis was a European literary and translation award named after the Italian Renaissance poet Francesco Petrarca or Petrarch. Founded in 1975 by German art historian and publisher Hubert Burda, it was primarily designed for contemporary ...

(1993), the Golden Wreath of the

Struga Poetry Evenings Struga Poetry Evenings (SPE) ( mk, Струшки вечери на поезијата, СВП; tr. ''Struški večeri na poezijata'', ''SVP'') is an international poetry festival held annually in Struga, North Macedonia. During the several dec ...

in 1994 and the Jan Smrek Prize (Bratislava, Slovakia). In 2003 Aygi participated in th
"international literature festival berlin"
.

Sofia Gubaidulina Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina (russian: Софи́я Асгáтовна Губaйду́лина, link=no , tt-Cyrl, София Әсгать кызы Гобәйдуллина; born 24 October 1931) is a Soviet-Russian composer and an established ...

set several of his poems to music in her cycle ''Jetzt immer Schnee'' ("Now always snow"). His son Aleksey Aygi is a

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References

External links

Month-long tribute to Aygi
essay and collection of links
Interview with Aygi's friend and translator Peter France
at New Directions Folk poets of Chuvashia Russian male poets Chuvash-language poets 1934 births 2006 deaths Chuvash writers Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath laureates 20th-century Russian poets People from Batyrevsky District 20th-century Russian male writers Maxim Gorky Literature Institute alumni {{Russia-poet-stub