Today we will tell you who Anatoly Naiman is. The biography of this person and the features of his creative path will be described below. It is a Russian poet, translator, essayist, prose writer and memoirist.
Biography
Anatoly Naiman was born in 1936, on April 23, in Leningrad. He was born in the family of Heinrich Kopelevich - a staunch Tolstoyan engineer, and Asya Davidovna, a doctor. He graduated from the 222nd high school in 1953. He became a student at the Leningrad Technological Institute. In 1958 he graduated from this educational institution. Further, Anatoly Naiman studied at the Higher Scenario Courses in Moscow. He was educated in the USA, at Stanford University. Our hero was not a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR. Since 1989, has been a member of the French Pen Club. He has been writing poetry since 1954. He has been publishing poetry as a translator since 1959. Until the time being, only his translations were published in the Soviet Union.
Since 1959, our hero was familiar with Anna Akhmatova. Since 1963, she was her literary secretary and co-author in translations of Leopardi. Gained wide popularity in samizdat. Here we should mention the works “September Poem”, “Poems on a private occasion” and “Sentimental March”. He is the author of numerous translations of medieval Provencal and French poetry. Here it is appropriate to mention the "novel about the Fox." In 1970, he wrote poetry for the songs of a children's film called "The Amazing Boy." The picture was taken by Alexander Orlov. The performer of the songs was Alla Pugacheva.
Anatoly Naiman works and lives in Moscow. In 2006, he wrote a book called "A Romance with a Samovar." The work describes the history of creation, as well as the work of the cultural center of Russia in the USA and the New York restaurant, the creators of which, together with Roman Kaplan, a businessman, are Joseph Brodsky, poet, and Mikhail Baryshnikov, a dancer.
The poetry of our hero reflects personal spiritual experiences and talks about relationships between people. These creations are far from politics and journalism, they are descriptive and narrative in nature. Sometimes they are dialogical, sometimes close to prose. All external events and details create only the background for the demonstration of internal experiences: the search for peace, poise, protection, as well as awareness of these opportunities in nature. Our hero is the owner of the Tsarskoye Selo art award. He received it in 2011. Thus was noted his book of stories dedicated to the great poetess of the twentieth century, as well as the devotion to poetry.
Friends about the author
Mark Zaychik emphasizes that Anatoly Nyman is an incredibly gifted person, he also has other positive qualities. Some are afraid of this person. Even for friends, he remains a mystery. Sergey Dovlatov noted that our hero is an “intellectual cowboy” who manages to pull the trigger much earlier than his opponent does. At the same time, his jokes can be poisonous.
Poems
You already know who Anatoly Naiman is. His poems are very diverse. The main poetic collections will be given below. In 1989, the book "Poems" was published. In 1993, Clouds at the End of the Century was released. In 2000, "The rhythm of the hands" was published. In 2002, two books of our hero were published at once - Lions and gymnasts ”and“ Sophia ”. In 2012, the collection Uninvited and Elected is published.
Prose
Anatoly Naiman in 1997 wrote the work “B. B. and others. " Also, he wrote the following prose: “Kill - ^ - ^ - ^ - 'a”, “Oxford, TsPKiO”, “Sir”, “On statues and people”, “Kablukov”, “Everything and everyone”, “ Unpleasant person ”,“ Love interest ”,“ Glorious end of inglorious generations ”,“ Poetry and untruth ”,“ Tales of Anna Akhmatova ”. Together with Galina Narinsky, our hero published a book entitled "The process of eating and talking." Readers appreciate the works of this author in both poetic and prosaic form.