What is Nahum Korzhavin?
[[File:Poet Naum Korzhavin, Boston 2012, CC- BY 3.0 Mariya Gershteyn.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Korzhavin in [[Boston]], 2012]] '''Nahum (Naum<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=2nrJF3c_rx4C&pg=PT255 Совок и веник]</ref>) Moiseyevich Korzhavin''' ({{lang-ru|Нау́м Моисе́евич Коржа́вин}}; real surname '''Mandel''', {{lang-ru|Мандель}}; 14 October 1925 – 22 June 2018) was a [[Russia]]n-American poet. He was born in [[Kiev]] of [[Jewish]] descent,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.themoscowtimes.com/arts_n_ideas/article/radical-heart-beats-anew/351630.html|title=Radical Heart Beats Anew|last=Marson|first=James|date=18 December 2007|work=The Moscow Times|access-date=8 September 2011}}</ref> He worked and lived in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]] during most of his career.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/23/books/writing-without-roots.html?pagewanted=all|title=WRITING WITHOUT ROOTS|last=Mydans|first=Seth|date=23 September 1984|work=The New York Times|page=1|access-date=8 September 2011}}</ref> In 2005 Korzhavin participated in ''[[They Chose Freedom]]'', a four-part television documentary on the history of the [[Soviet dissidents|Soviet dissident]] movement. He wrote many [[memoir]]s and novels about [[dissident]]s. Korzhavin died in [[Chapel Hill, North Carolina]] on 22 June 2018 at the age of 92.<ref>[https://meduza.io/news/2018/06/22/umer-poet-naum-korzhavin Умер поэт Наум Коржавин]</ref> == Related pages == *[[List of poets from North America]] ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://russia-ic.com/culture_art/literature/325/ Poet Naum Korzhavin, a Big Book Author] {{DEFAULTSORT:Korzhavin, Naum}} [[Category:1925 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States]] [[Category:Russian poets]] [[Category:American poets]] [[Category:Writers from Boston]] [[Category:Writers from Kyiv]] {{US-bio-stub}}