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

photograph of Kenjeev

Life edit

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 edit

  • 2003 Moscow-Transit Poetry Prize[6]

Works edit

English Translations edit

  • "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 edit

  • 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 edit

  • 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 edit