Stanislav Yuryevich Kunyaev (; born November 27, 1932) is a Russian poet, journalist, translator, and

literary critic A genre of arts criticism, literary criticism or literary studies is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical analysis of literature' ...

. Since 1989, he has served as editor of literary magazine '' Nash Sovremennik''.

Biography

Kunyaev was born on November 27, 1932, in

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in the Russian SFSR. During the

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, his family was evacuated to the village in

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, where Kunyaev completed his first four grades of primary school. Following the war, the family returned to Kaluga. From 1952 to 1957, he studied at the Faculty of Philology of

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, and was a member of national teams for university athletics. While at university, Kunyaev started writing poetry, and his first collection of poems ''Earth Explorers'' was published in 1960. Between 1957 and 1960, he worked for the newspaper ''Zavety Lenina'' (

Tayshet Tayshet ( rus, Тайшет, p=tɐjˈʂɛt, lit. ''cold river'' in the Kott language) is a town and the administrative center of Tayshetsky District in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located northwest of Irkutsk, the administrative center of the obl ...

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), before serving as head of the poetry department of literary magazine ''

Znamya ''Znamya'' ( rus, Знамя, p=ˈznamʲə, a=Ru-знамя.ogg, lit. "The Banner") is a Russian monthly literary magazine, which was established in Moscow in 1931. In 1931–1932, the magazine was published under the name of ''Lokaf'' ("Лок ...

'' from 1960 to 1963. Kunyaev became a member of the

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in 1961. In 1967, having considered that he was in a creative crisis, he left for five years to work in geological parties in the

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, and the Hissar Range. From 1976 to 1980, Kunyaev was Secretary of the Moscow Writers' Organization. He was a member of the secretariat of the board of the Writers' Union of Russia. On August 19, 1991, he supported the

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. With his son Sergei, Kunyaev published a book about the life and work of

Sergei Yesenin Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin (, ; 1895 – 28 December 1925), sometimes spelled as Esenin, was a Russian lyric poet. He is one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century. One of his narratives was "lyrical evocations ...

in the series '. Kunyaev has written around 20 books including ''Eternal Companion'', ''Scroll'', ''Manuscript'', ''Deep Day'', and ''Favorites'', and has translated poetry from Ukrainian, Georgian, Abkhazian, Kirghiz, Buryat, and Lithuanian. Between 1992 and 1993, he was a member of the Political Council of the National Salvation Front. Kunyaev was awarded the

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in 2014 for his services to the development of national culture and art. Stanislav Kunyaev supports the point of view of

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References

External links

Official site

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