Yevgency Yevtushenko

Yevgeny Yevtushenko was born on July 18, 1933, in the Irkutsk region of Siberia, and he grew up there and in Moscow. He first received acclaim for his poetry as a teenager, when he began publishing in magazines and was admitted to the Gorky Literary Institute and the Soviet Writers’ Union. Yevtushenko published numerous poetry collections, including The Collected Poems: 1952–1990 (Henry Holt, 1991), Almost at the End (Henry Holt, 1987), From Desire to Desire (Doubleday, 1976), and The Poetry of Yevgeny Yevtushenko, 1953–1965 (October House, 1965). He was also the author of several works of prose, including the novel Wild Berries (W. Morrow, 1984) and the autobiography A Precocious Autobiography (Dutton, 1963). (Source)