Genrikh Sapgir - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography (Read)

Genrikh Sapgir - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, clips, Writer.
November 20, 1928, Biysk - October 7, 1999, Moscow - Russian writer and poet, screenwriter, translator.
Since 1944, a member of the literary studio of the poet and artist Yevgeny Kropivnitsky at one of the Moscow houses of pioneers (Leningradsky district). Since the late 1950s, a close circle of aesthetically close poets and artists has formed around Kropyvnitsky and his student, the artist Oskar Rabin, which later received the name of the "Lianozovo school" (Rabin lived near the Lianozovo station near Moscow) .
During the Soviet years, Sapgir was published a lot as a children's writer (he wrote the scripts of the classic cartoons "The Locomotive from Romashkov" and others, the words of the song "Green Carriage" (translated from Yiddish, poems by Ovsey Driz) and others) .
In 1979 he took part in the uncensored almanac Metropol. The first publication of Sapgir's "adult" poems abroad - in 1968, in the USSR - only in 1989, during Perestroika. He also acted as a translator (first of all, the outstanding Jewish poet Ovsey Driz, German concrete poetry and the American poet Jim Cates). Compiled the poetic section of the anthology "Samizdat of the Century" (1998), on the basis of which the Internet project "Unofficial Poetry" was created .
During the years of perestroika, he became a member of the Moscow Writers 'Union (since 1988), although he had a negative attitude to the idea of ??the Writers' Union. Member of the PEN Club since 1995; before his death, he joined the DOOS group (in 1999).

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