Gennadiy Aygi

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Nikolayevich and the family name is Aygi.

Gennadiy Aygi
Born	(1934-08-21)21 August 1934 Shaimurzino, Chuvash ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Chuvashia, Russia)
Died	21 February 2006(2006-02-21) (aged 71) Moscow, Russia
Literary movement	Neo-surrealism
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Gennadiy Nikolayevich Aygi (Russian: Генна́дий Никола́евич Айги́, IPA: [ɡʲɪˈnadʲɪj nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ ɐjˈɡʲi] , Chuvash: Геннадий Николаевич Айхи; 21 August 1934 – 21 February 2006) was a Russian poet and a translator. His poetry is written both in Chuvash and in Russian.

He was born in the village of Shaimurzino (Çĕnyal), Chuvashia (USSR), moved to Moscow in 1953 and stayed there for the rest of his life. Aygi started writing poetry in the Chuvash language in 1958.

Among the recognitions he has won are the Andrey Bely Prize (1987), the Pasternak Prize (2000, the first to be awarded this), the Prize of the French Academy (1972), the Petrarch Prize (1993), the Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings in 1994 and the Jan Smrek Prize (Bratislava, Slovakia).

In 2003 Aygi participated in the "international literature festival berlin" Archived 22 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine.

Sofia Gubaidulina set several of his poems to music in her cycle Jetzt immer Schnee ("Now always snow").

His son Aleksey Aygi is a composer.

References

• France, Peter (25 February 2006). "Obituary: Gennady Aygi". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 November 2021.

External links

• Month-long tribute to Aygi Archived 20 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine essay and collection of links
• Interview with Aygi's friend and translator Peter France at New Directions