Brief biography of Aigi

The poems are short, stingy, there is nothing superfluous; Stments and lines are not long, often from one word or several words. They are surrounded by a large space of snow -white paper. ” Aigi is a multifaceted, harmonious person, symbolizing the unity of the Russian and Chuvash peoples. A brave innovator in the field of content and forms of works, artist-philosopher, Gennady Aigi had a huge impact on modern world literature.

The fate of Gennady Aigi is tragically and at the same time happily paradoxical. The Chuvash boy from the village of Shaimurzino Batyrevsky district of Chuvashia, the son of a rural teacher who came to Moscow “with his native land under the nails”, entered the context of world literature of the 20th century. Gennady Nikolaevich Aigi was born on August 21 in the Chuvash village of Shaimurzino.

Starting to write poetry in Chuvashsky, Aigi published his first works of the year. In the same year, he entered the Batyrev Pedagogical School. In the year, the young poet meets in Cheboksary with the famous Peder Huzangay, who advises him at the end of the school in the year to go to Moscow and enter the Literary Institute. Having become a student, Aigi is engaged in the creative seminar of Mikhail Svetlov, writes poetry at the same time in Chuvash and Russian.

The meeting with Boris Pasternak, who advised the young poet, to switch completely into Russian, connecting the young poet directly to modern European literature, for modern European literature. In the year, Aigi immediately loses both his mother and B. The author was expelled from the institute and only a year later received a diploma, presenting not original verses to defense, but translations.

Since the year, Aigi has been living in Moscow. In years, he worked at the State Museum of V. Mayakovsky by the senior bibliographer, headed the isosector, and participated in the arrangement of exhibitions of masters of the Russian avant -garde. The French Academy honored this book by P., compiled by Aigi and the anthology of Chuvash poetry equipped with his preface, was published in translations into Hungarian, Italian and English.

The creative fate of the city of Aigi is complex and extraordinary. The Chuvash poet, writing in his native language and Russian, until recently was better known in Europe than in his homeland. For a long time in the poet’s homeland, his poetry was by silence or mentioned it negatively. However, abroad his works were highly appreciated. Outside of Russia, about twenty of his books came out in foreign languages; In Russian, the poet’s chosen lyrics in a separate book was published in the year.

Only at the beginning of the 10ths of the 20th century. In the years in Moscow, two of its volumetric collections are published - “here” and “now always snow”. In the year, Aigi was awarded the State Prize of Chuvashia named after K. Ivanov, in the year he becomes a folk poet of Chuvashia, in the year - an honorary doctor of the University of Chuvash. Among his international awards - the F.

Prize in the history of literature Aigi entered as a poet who wrote in Chuvash, Russian and French. All belonging to the native land, but at the same time - to the whole world. But, of course, the poet’s huge creative heritage needs a new understanding and reading. And so it will be for each of the subsequent generations.

What power should be to be so silent in such a meager creature as I am G.