Bakhyt Kenjeev

Bakhyt Shukurullaevich Kenjeev (Kenzheyev, Russian: Бахыт Шукуруллаевич Кенжеев; 2 August 1950 – 26 June 2024) was a Russian poet and writer^[1] of Kazakh descent.^[2]

Bakhyt Kenjeev
Бахыт Кенжеев
Kenjeev in 2006
Born	(1950-08-02)2 August 1950 Shymkent, Kazakh SSR
Died	(2024-06-26)26 June 2024 New York City, United States
Resting place	Green-Wood Cemetery
Citizenship	Soviet Union Canada
Alma mater	Moscow State University
Occupation(s)	Poet, writer

Biography

Kenjeev was born in Shymkent, Kazakh SSR on 2 August 1950.^[3][4] In 1953 his parents moved to Moscow.^[5] He graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University with the equivalent of an M.S. degree in chemistry.^[6] In 1975, he was a founding member of the "Moscow Time" group of poets, with Alexei Tsvetkov, Alexander Soprovsky, and Sergey Gandlevsky.^[7] In 1982, Kenjeev immigrated to Canada; his first book of poetry was published by Ardis Publishing in 1984.^[8]

After Perestroika, Kenjeev frequently visited Russia, Ukraine, and other post-Soviet countries; he was a regular guest at numerous poetry festivals, including the Moscow Bienale, Kievskie Lavry, Leningradskie Mosty, Blue Metropolis Montreal festival,^[9] and the international poetry festival in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and published several volumes of poetry. Many of his poems were translated into English, French, Kazakh, German, Swedish, and other languages.^[2][10]

Kenjeev lived in New York and Montreal.^[11][12] He died after a short illness on 26 June 2024, at the age of 73.^[13] He was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.

Selected awards

• 2003 Moscow-Transit Poetry Prize^[14]
• 2008 Russian Prize^[15][16]

Works

English translations

• "Rain Pours Down in Rome, Repeating", West Branch, J. Kayes, Bucknell University
• Slava Muchnick, ed. (7 September 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)^[17]
• Осень в Америке (1988) (ISBN 9781557790064)
• Стихотворения (1995)^[18]
• 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. М., 2008. (ISBN 9785969106710)
• Послания. — М., 2011. 640 с. (ISBN 978-5-9691-0514-0)
• Сообщение. — М., 2012. (ISBN 978-5-699-54601-5)
• Странствия и 87 стихотворений. К., 2013. (ISBN 978-966-2449-32-7)
• Довоенное: Стихи 2010—2013 годов. М., 2014.^[19]
• Позднее: Книга стихов. СПб., 2016.^[20]
• Элегии и другие стихотворения. М., 2018.^[20]

Novels

• Плато (1992)^[21]
• Иван Безуглов. Мещанский роман (1993)^[22]
• Золото гоблинов: Романы («Младший брат», «Золото гоблинов»), Независимая газета, М 2000, (ISBN 5-86712-101-1)