Nahum (Naum) Moiseyevich Korzhavin (; real surname Mandel, ; 14 October 1925 – 22 June 2018) was a Russian poet of

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descent, a dissident and emigrant who moved to

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in 1973 and lived there 43 years. He spent the last two years of his life in

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, to be near family. Korzhavin was given the Big Book National Award-2006 for his contribution to literature. He was the only Big Book finalist to get into the short-list with a book of memoirs. Korzhavin created a vivid detailed picture of his life and his country in his prose work under the expressive title ''In Temptations of the Bloody Epoch''. In 2005 Korzhavin participated in ''

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'', a four-part television documentary on the history of the Soviet dissident movement.

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Poet Naum Korzhavin, a Big Book Author
1925 births 2018 deaths Poets from Boston Writers from Kyiv Pseudonymous writers Russian male poets Soviet emigrants to the United States Soviet dissidents 20th-century Russian memoirists Russian-language writers Soviet Jews Jewish Russian writers Maxim Gorky Literature Institute alumni {{russia-poet-stub