Naum Korzhavin (; born
Kiev (
October 14,
1925), remarkable
Russian poet of
Jewish descent, a dissident and emigrant living in
Boston. Korzhavin was given the special prize of the Big Book National Award-2006 for his contribution into literature. He was the only Big Book finalist to get into the short-list with a book of memoirs. Korzhavin created a vivid detailed picture of his life and his country in his prose work under the expressive title In Temptations of the Bloody Epoch.
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