Nobel Awards In Russian Literature
08.10.2003 Source:
A recent addition is Konstantin Kedrov, who is known for his outstanding philosophical verse that combines both the traditions of Russian Futurism and the Symbolism of Alexander Blok.
Indeed, all the five Russians prefer not to dwell on mundane problems of everyday life.
Russia's poets have enjoyed more success in Sweden.
Ivan Bunin was a first Russian to win the prize in 1933. One of his country's foremost poets, he sang the melancholy beauty of the Russian vistas. His love verses, brimming with passionate yet exquisite eroticism, were no less superb.
Boris Pasternak came next in 1958. In one of life's ironies, the poet of genius received his Nobel Prize for his only prose work, Doctor Zhivago.
Joseph Brodsky, the latest Russian Nobel Prize winner, who took the award in 1987, wrote poetry that resembled Venice, a place he loved very much, as his verse was literally flooded with emotion.
Today, the extravagant and energetic poet Gennadi Aighi still has a good chance of winning the prize next year. Tuneful yet bristling with latter-day booming rhythm, his verse is unique in Russian poetry. He is more of language-maker than poet. If God had given the animal kingdom the gift of poetry, Aighi's poems might have come from a lone wolf's pen.
The five Russian nominees -- Bella Akhmadulina and Konstantin Kedrov -- are worthy successors to Russia's previous five Noble Prize winners -Ivan Bunin, Mikhail Sholokhov, Boris Pasternak, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Joseph Brodsky.
Anatoli Korolev, RIAN
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