Alexander Kushner

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Alexander Kushner


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in Leningrad, Russian Federation
September 14, 1936

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Alexander Semyonovich Kushner (Александр Семёнович Кушнер) (born September 14, 1936) is a Russian poet from Saint Petersburg.
Kushner was born in Leningrad into a Russian-Jewish family; his father was a military engineer. He graduated from Herzen University, and later, between 1959 and 1969, taught Russian literature. After that he became a full-time writer and poet. Since then he published about 15 collections of his poetry and two books of his essays. In 1965 he became a member of the Writers' Union, in 1987 joined the Russian PEN Center. He is also editor-in-chief of Biblioteka poeta (the "Library of the Poet" series). His only son Eugene and his family live in Israel.
In October 1993, he signed the Letter of Forty-Two.
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Вечерний свет

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Античные мотивы

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Аполлон в траве. Эссе. Стихи

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“Only those who have not paid a high price for the gentle joy of living and breathing can allow themselves feelings of melancholy, denial and lofty disdain of life.”
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