Yevgeny Chigrin

Yevgeny[lower-alpha 1] Mikhailovich Chigrin (Russian: Евгений Михайлович Чигрин; born September 16, 1961) is a Russian poet and essayist living in Moscow (since 2002).[1]

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Mikhailovich and the family name is Chigrin.
Yevgeny Chigrin
Chigrin in 2007
Native name
Евгений Чигрин
BornYevgeny Mikhailovich Chigrin
(1961-09-16) September 16, 1961
Mala Vyska, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Occupationpoet, essayist
LanguageRussian
NationalityRussian
CitizenshipMoscow
Alma materMoscow State Art and Cultural University
Genreрoetry, essay

Biograрhy

Born in 1961 in the town of Mala Vyska.[2]

He has published poems in the magazines “New World”, “Friendship of Peoples”, “Continent”, “Zvezda”, “Neva”, “Arion”, “Interpoetry”, “Bulletin of Europe”, “Yunost”, “Foreign Notes” (Germany), “Khreshchatyk” (Germany), “Day and Night”, “Southern Lights”, “Rubezh”, “New Poland”, “Ural”, “Baikal”, “Ring A” and in other literary magazines and almanacs, as well as in a number of prestigious European and Russian anthologies. He is the author of Literaturnaya Gazeta.[3]

Member of the PEN International.[4]

In 2014, a book of Chigrin's lyrics “Teamster” was published in Ukrainian translation. Translator: Ihor Pavlyuk.

Evgeny Rein noted that “Chigrin is a poet who appeared when “the paths of the avant-garde, realism, and modernity were over, from which it naturally follows that the poet does not follow any of them”.[5] Andrei Bitov once expressed a similar idea.[5] Pavel Basinsky considers Chigrin "one of the most brilliant modern poets".[6]

In 2023, it became known that Chigrin had prostate cancer.[7]

Bibliography
  • Teamster (2012)
  • Sleepless Bay (2014)
  • Underwater Ball (2015)
  • The Invisible Guide (2018)
  • Lamp over the sea (2020)
  • Old Nomad (2020)
  • The Invisible Guide (2021; second edition, edited)
  • Water Trees (2022)
  • Swampfire (2024)

Notes
  1. Sometimes transcribed to English as Evgeny

References
  1. Zakhar Prilepin (April 23, 2013). "Евгений Чигрин: Отправиться в Бенгалию". netslova.ru (in Russian).
  2. "Евгений Чигрин". Журнальный зал (in Russian).
  3. "Евгений Чигрин". Литературная газета (in Russian).
  4. "Главный редактор" (PDF). Yunost (in Russian). 2019.
  5. "Домолчаться до слов". Prosōdia (in Russian). 2019.
  6. "Павел Басинский: Стихи Евгения Чигрина для тех, кто любит поэзию вопреки времени". Российская газета (in Russian). June 28, 2012.
  7. "Автору нашего издательства Евгению Чигрину нужна помощь". Издательство СТиХИ (in Russian). December 8, 2023.
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