Gennadiy Aygi

Gennadiy Nikolayevich Aygi (Russian: Генна́дий Никола́евич Айги́, IPA: [ɡʲɪˈnadʲɪj nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ ɐjˈɡʲi] ^ⓘ, Chuvash: Геннадий Николаевич Айхи; 21 August 1934 – 21 February 2006) was a Russian poet and a translator. His poetry is written both in Chuvash and in Russian.

Native name

Геннадий Айхи
Геннадий Айги

Born(1934-08-21)21 August 1934

Shaimurzino [ru], Chuvash ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Chuvashia, Russia)

Died21 February 2006(2006-02-21) (aged 71)

Moscow, Russia

Literary movementNeo-surrealism

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Gennadiy Aygi
Native name	Геннадий Айхи Геннадий Айги
Born	(1934-08-21)21 August 1934 Shaimurzino [ru], Chuvash ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Chuvashia, Russia)
Died	21 February 2006(2006-02-21) (aged 71) Moscow, Russia
Literary movement	Neo-surrealism
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He was born in the village of Shaimurzino (Çĕnyal), Chuvashia (USSR), moved to Moscow in 1953 and stayed there for the rest of his life.^{[citation needed]} Aygi started writing poetry in the Chuvash language in 1958.

Among the recognitions he has won are the Andrey Bely Prize (1987), the Pasternak Prize (2000, the first to be awarded this), the Prize of the French Academy (1972), the Petrarch Prize (1993), the Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings in 1994 and the Jan Smrek Prize (Bratislava, Slovakia).

Sofia Gubaidulina set several of his poems to music in her cycle Jetzt immer Schnee ("Now always snow").

His son Aleksey Aygi is a composer.