Naum Moiseyevich Korzhavin | |
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 Naum Korzhavin in 2012 | |
| Native name | Наум Моисеевич Коржавин |
| Born | Naum Moiseyevich Mandel (1925-10-14)14 October 1925 Kiev,Ukrainian SSR,Soviet Union |
| Died | 22 June 2018(2018-06-22) (aged 92) Chapel Hill, North Carolina,United States[1] |
| Occupation | writer |
| Language | Russian |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Citizenship |  Soviet Union, United States |
| Alma mater | Maxim Gorky Literature Institute[2] |
| Genre | poetry, essays, memoirs |
| Notable awards | Big Book National Award (2006) |
Nahum (Naum[3]) Moiseyevich Korzhavin (Russian:Нау́м Моисе́евич Коржа́вин; real surnameMandel,Russian:Мандель; 14 October 1925 – 22 June 2018[4]) was a Russian poet ofJewish descent,[5] a dissident and emigrant who moved toBoston,Massachusetts in 1973 and lived there 43 years.[6] He spent the last two years of his life inChapel Hill, North Carolina, to be near family.[7]
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 titleIn Temptations of the Bloody Epoch.
In 2005 Korzhavin participated inThey Chose Freedom, a four-part television documentary on the history of the Soviet dissident movement.
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