Russian Booker Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 2 (1993) Nominee
Semyon Lipkin
せみょん・りぷきん
Semyon Ripukin
Aliases:
Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1911-09-06 （Odessa）
- Died
- 2003-03-31 （Peredelkino） age 91
- Nationality
- Russian
- Languages
- Russian
- Religion
- Judaism
- Residence History
- Odessa, Russian Empire → Moscow, USSR → Peredelkino, Russia
Career
- Occupations
- Poet, Writer, Soldier, Literary translator
- Active Years
- 1926-2003
- Affiliations
- Union of Soviet Writers
- Influenced By
- Osip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Vasily Grossman, Andrey Platonov, Eduard Bagritsky
- Influenced
- Joseph Brodsky
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moscow Engineering-Economic Institute | — | Engineering and Economics | — | 1929-1937 | USSR |
Moscow Engineering-Economic Institute
Engineering and Economics
Period:
1929-1937
Year of Graduation:
1937
Country:
USSR
Studied engineering and economics. Also early education in Hebrew and Torah.
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Kalmykia National Poet | — | — | Republic of Kalmykia | won |
| 2001 | Hero of Kalmykia | — | — | Republic of Kalmykia | won |
Kalmykia National Poet
1967
Organization:
Republic of Kalmykia
Result:
won
Hero of Kalmykia
2001
Organization:
Republic of Kalmykia
Result:
won
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Kvadriga
MemoirMemoirs of Osip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Vasily Grossman, and Andrey Platonov.
Literary historySoviet literature
The Lieutenant Quartermaster
Epic poemAn epic poem based on his World War II experiences.
World War II
Translations by Author
- Translations into Russian from Kalmyk, Abkhaz, Akkadian, Buryat, Dagestani, Karbardinian, Kirghiz, Tatar, Tajik-Persian, Uzbek and others
Translations of Works
- English: After Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin (2011), Testimony... (2023)
- French: Le Destin de Vassili Grossman (1990)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Neo-Acmeism
- Recurring Motifs
- HistoryPhilosophyJewish heritageThe BibleWorld War IIGreat Purge
Legacy
Lipkin's work gained wider recognition after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Supported by his wife poet Inna Lisnyanskaya. Close friends with Anna Akhmatova, Joseph Brodsky, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Archives
- Russian State Archive of Literature and Art
Trivia
- Published his first poem at age 15, praised by Eduard Bagritsky.
- His father was a tailor active in the Menshevik movement.
- Hid Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate manuscript from KGB and helped smuggle it to the West.
- Married to poet Inna Lisnyanskaya.