Gennady Aygi was born in 1934 in the Chuvash Autonomous Republic. Regarded
as the Chuvash national poet, he has translated many works into Chuvash
& has edited an anthology of Chuvash poetry (translated by Peter France
& published by Forest Books, 1991). Due to his ties with Pasternak,
Aygi was expelled from the Gorky Literary Institute, & went on to found
a society of underground artists in Moscow. He has worked at the Mayakovsky
Museum, organizing art exhibitions, although most of his life has been
lived in poverty, primarily earning his living through translations into
Chuvash. Though relatively unpublished in the Soviet Union until the late
1980's, his work was published & received major acclaim throughout
the rest of the world, being translated into some 20 languages
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