Ivan Afanasevich Burkin ( February 5, 1919 , Penza - June 4, 2011 , San Francisco ) - Russian poet of the second wave of emigration.
| Ivan Burkin | |
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| Birth name | Ivan Afanasevich Burkin |
| Date of Birth | February 5, 1919 |
| Place of Birth | Penza |
| Date of death | June 4, 2011 (92 years old) |
| Place of death | San Francisco , USA |
| Citizenship |  USSR ,  USA |
| Occupation | poet |
| Language of Works | Russian |
Biography
In the late 1920s Burkin’s father, a miller, was declared an exploiter, was twice detained in the local NKVD prison; in 1931, on the eve of the third arrest, he put the whole family on a train, and Ivan, along with his mother and younger brother, left in an unknown direction. He graduated from the philological faculty of the Pedagogical Institute in Saransk . In 1938, he first published poetry in Saransk . In 1940 he was drafted into the army, in 1941 he was sent to the front, a year later he was captured. After his release, he remained in Germany , spent several years in refugee camps. In 1947, in Munich, he published the first book of poetry. Since 1950 he lived in the USA. At Columbia University, he received a Ph.D. He taught Russian language and literature at the University of Syracuse , at San Francisco College. He was actively published as a poet in periodicals and anthologies, in the USA he published six collections of poems, translated poems by American poets. Since 1988 it was published in Russia. He was buried in the Orthodox Serbian cemetery of San Francisco.
Links
- Easy I. In memory of Ivan Burkin // Sowing. 2011. No. 9 (1608). S. 46-48
- Page on the “New Literary Map of Russia”
- Ivan Burkin on the website “The Century of Translation”