Kenzheev, Bakhyt Shkurullaevich

Born on August 2, 1950 in Chimkent , from three years old he lived in Moscow ^[2] . Father was an English teacher, mother a librarian. He graduated from the chemistry department of Moscow State University .

He made his debut as a poet in the collective collection "Lenin Hills: Poems of the Poets of Moscow State University" (M., 1977). In his youth he was published in the periodical press ( Komsomolskaya Pravda , Youth , Moscow Komsomolets , Prostor ), but the first book of his poems was published in America in 1984.

In the early seventies Kenzheev became one of the founders of the Moscow Time poetic group (together with Alexei Tsvetkov , Alexander Soprovsky , Sergey Gandlevsky ). Published since 1972 .

In 1980, Bakhyt married Canadian Laura ^[3] and in 1982 emigrated to Canada, and in 2008 moved to the United States (New York). Nevertheless, participation in literary life did not prevent Kezheev from holding meetings with readers and colleagues in Russia , and the publication of books was mainly carried out in Russian publishing houses.

Member of the Russian PEN Club . He was a member of the jury of the Debut Prize (2000), the jury of the Ak Torn international poetry poetry translation competition (2011), the Russian Prize, the World Cup, and the Voloshinsky contest.

Published in translations into Kazakh , English , French , German , Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Ukrainian, Chinese, and Swedish .

Book of Poems

• Selected Lyrics 1970-1981. - Ann Arbor, 1984.
• Autumn in America. - Tenafly, 1988.
• Poems of recent years. - M., 1992.
• From the book AMO ERGO SUM. - M. , 1993.
• Poems. - M .: PAN, 1995.
• Return. - Almaty : Zhibek Zholy, 1996.
• Star Writer: A Book of New Poems. - SPb. : Pushkin Foundation, 1997. ISBN 5-85767-091-8
• Dreaming in the Morning: Book of Poems. - M .: Club "Project OGI", 2000. ISBN 5-900241-09-2
• Of the seven books: Poems. - M .: Independent newspaper, 2000. ISBN 5-86712-027-9
• Invisible: Poems. - M .: OGI , 2004. ISBN 5-94282-229-8
• No title: book of poems. - Almaty: Iskander, 2005.
• Galich city flickers in the distance: Poems by the boy Theodore. - M .: ARGO-RISK; Tver: Column, 2006. ISBN 5-94128-126-9
• The serf cooling ground. Vladivostok: Rubezh, 2008 (reprint: M .: Time, 2011).
• The messages. - M .: Time , 2011.640 s. ISBN 978-5-9691-0514-0
• Message. - M .: Eksmo , 2012.
• Wanderings and 87 poems. K .: Laurus, 2013.
• Pre-war: Poems of 2010-2013. - M .: OGI, 2014 .-- 144 p. ISBN 978-5-94282-745-8
• Later: Book of Poems. SPb. : Helikon Plus , 2016 .-- 155 p. ISBN: 978-5-00098-075-0
• Elegy and other poems. - M .: Voimega , 2018 .-- 124 p. ISBN 978-5-6040915-3-1

Books published under a pseudonym

• Instrument Repair . Civil lyrics and other compositions. 1969-2013. - M .: OGI, 2014. ISBN 978-5-94282-735-9

Novels

• Plateau (1992).
• Ivan Bezuglov. Meshchansky novel (1993).
• Goblin Gold: Novels (Younger Brother, Goblin Gold). - M .: Nezavisimaya Gazeta, 2000. ISBN 5-86712-101-1
• Circumcision of stepsons. M .: Astrel , 2009.

Collected Works

• Collected works. - Kiev : Summit Book, 2018 .-- 650 p. - 500 copies.

• October Magazine Award (1992)
• Kazakhstan Youth Union Award (1996)
• Antibooker Prize (2000) for the book of poems “Rising in the Morning”
• Moscow Transit (Big Prize), (2003)
• “Russian Prize” (2008) for the book of poems “The Castle of Cooling Places” ^{[4] [5]}
• New World Magazine Award
• Anthology Award (2006)
• Laureate of the Kiev Lavra Festival (2006)
• Laureate of the Russian Prize (2008)
• Laureate of the prize V. Sirin (Nabokov) (2016)
• Banner Magazine Award (2016)
• Children of Ra Magazine Award (2018)

Bakhyt Kenzheev all the time takes certain steps in his work. To the side, forward - anywhere, just to go. And this poet's creative credo is deeply pleasing to me. But, when he begins to actively “wander off” from his own recognition, in my opinion, this is counterproductive for himself. The audience warmly accepts the good and painfully familiar and is not always as joyfully ready to welcome a purely experimental one.

- Alexander Karpenko

Kenzheev often writes as if someone objects to him. Either life, or the steppe, or Russia. The seminars are just designed to handle disputes that never end in Kenzheev’s poems. Disputes - that is, dialogues. Dialogical monologues. The muse of rhetoric here meets with just muse.

- Alexander Kasymov . In the cramped retreating years ... // " Banner " No. 11, 2000

Kenzheev is an easy poet. And his poetry is light. Including in the old, two hundred years ago - Batyushkov and Vyazemsky - meaning: continuous trinkets - elegy (albeit not in the literal designation of the genre, but in the spirit of Kenzheev - elegiac poet), messages, enumerations of favorite trifles, impressive tracking of the calendar, although even counting eschatological time ...

- Olga Lebedushkina . Poet as Theodore // " Friendship of Peoples " No. 11, 2007

• Cossack V. Lexicon of Russian literature of the XX century = Lexikon der russischen Literatur ab 1917 / [trans. with him.]. - M .: RIC "Culture", 1996. - XVIII, 491, [1] p. - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 5-8334-0019-8 .
• Klotz, Jacob. Conversation with Bahyt Kenzheev // Poets in New York: on the city, language, diaspora. - Moscow: New Literary Review, 2016 .-- S. 214-253. - 688 p. - ISBN 9785444805657 .

• Personal page of the poet
• Kenzheev, Bakhyt Shkurullaevich on the site " A new map of Russian literature "
• Kenzheev, Bakhyt Shkurullaevich in the " Journal Hall "
• Kenzheev, Bakhyt Shkurullaevich in the library of Maxim Moshkov
• Page on the Babylon website
• Interview with Bahyt Kenzheev
• “Poetry cannot be stadium,” an interview with Bahyt Kenzheev
• "Earwig under the divine stone." Alexander Belykh: dialogues with Bahyt Kenzheev
• “Bakhyt Kenzheev. Fortress cooling places "
• “Bakhyt Kenzheev. There is no other way. ”
• Almanac "45th parallel." Publications of Bakhyt Kenzheev
• Interview Bakhyt Kenzheeva project Peat TV
• Alexander Karpenko Dialog TV. "Books and people." About the poetry of Bakhyt Kenzheev
• Interview of Bakhyt Kenzheev with Ardak Seitkazin