Gennadiy Aygi

{{short description|Chuvash poet, writer and translator}}

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{{Family name hatnote|Nikolayevich|Aygi|lang=Eastern Slavic}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1934|8|21|df=y}}

| birth_place = {{ill|Shaimurzino, Batyrevsky District|lt=Shaimurzino|ru|Шаймурзино (Батыревский район)}}, Chuvash ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Chuvashia, Russia)

| death_date = {{death date and age|2006|2|21|1934|8|21|df=y}}

| death_place = Moscow, Russia

| movement = Neo-surrealism

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Gennadiy Nikolayevich Aygi ({{lang-rus|Генна́дий Никола́евич Айги́|p=ɡʲɪˈnadʲɪj nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ ɐjˈɡʲi|a=Gyennadiy Nikolayevich Aygi.ru.vorb.oga}}, {{langx|cv|Геннадий Николаевич Айхи}}; 21 August 1934 – 21 February 2006) was a Russian poet and a translator. His poetry is written both in Chuvash and in Russian.

He was born in the village of Shaimurzino (Çĕnyal), Chuvashia (USSR), moved to Moscow in 1953 and stayed there for the rest of his life.{{citation needed|date=December 2017}} Aygi started writing poetry in the Chuvash language in 1958.

Among the recognitions he has won are the Andrey Bely Prize (1987), the Pasternak Prize (2000, the first to be awarded this), the Prize of the French Academy (1972), the Petrarch Prize (1993), the Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings in 1994 and the Jan Smrek Prize (Bratislava, Slovakia).

In 2003 Aygi participated in the [http://www.literaturfestival.com/archive/participants/authors/2003/2020-gennadij-ajgi?set_language=en "international literature festival berlin"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180222105026/http://www.literaturfestival.com/archive/participants/authors/2003/2020-gennadij-ajgi?set_language=en |date=22 February 2018 }}.

Sofia Gubaidulina set several of his poems to music in her cycle Jetzt immer Schnee ("Now always snow").

His son Aleksey Aygi is a composer.