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Yevgeny Yevtushenko (b. 1933). Born in Siberia near Lake Baikal, Yevtushenko is Russia's best-known living poet, attracting huge stadium audiences (30,000 at one reading). He has also written essays and toured the world as a speaker, currently spending half of the year teaching at Tulsa University in Oklahoma.
His most recent work is a novel, Don't Die Before You're Dead (1991) which follows the Soviet Union from the end of World War II through the early 1990s. Although he was sometimes held ..
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