What is Yuz Aleshkovsky?
[[File:YuzAleshkovsky.jpg|thumb|Yuz Aleshkovsky in 2007]] '''Iosif Efimovich Aleshkovsky''' ({{lang-ru|Ио́сиф Ефи́мович Алешко́вский}}), known as '''Yuz Aleshkovsky''' ({{lang-ru|Юз Алешко́вский}}) (September 21, 1929 – March 21, 2022) was a Russian singer-songwriter, poet and, playwright.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.svoboda.org/a/umer-pisatelj-i-ispolnitelj-yuz-aleshkovskiy/31762888.html|title=Умер писатель и исполнитель Юз Алешковский|website=Радио Свобода}}</ref> He was born in [[Krasnoyarsk]], [[Siberian Krai]], [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]. He was a visiting professor at [[Wesleyan University]] in the [[United States]]. In 1987 he was awarded a [[Guggenheim fellowship]] for fiction.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/yuz-aleshkovsky/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation &#124; Yuz Aleshkovsky}}</ref> In 2002 Aleshkovsky won the [[Pushkin Prize]]. Aleshkovsky died on March 21, 2022 in [[Tampa, Florida]] at the age of 92.<ref>[https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/03/21/writer-yuz-aleshkovsky-dead-at-age-92-a77012 Writer Yuz Aleshkovsky, Dead at Age 92]</ref> == Related pages == *[[List of poets from North America]] ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Aleshkovsky, Yuz}} [[Category:1929 births]] [[Category:2022 deaths]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States]] [[Category:Russian academics]] [[Category:Russian singers]] [[Category:Russian poets]] [[Category:Russian playwrights]] [[Category:American playwrights]] [[Category:American poets]] [[Category:Singers from Connecticut]] [[Category:Academics from Connecticut]] [[Category:People from Krasnoyarsk]] {{US-bio-stub}}