Nahum Korzhavin

{{Short description|Russian poet (1925–2018)}}

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| name = Naum Moiseyevich Korzhavin

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| image = Poet Naum Korzhavin, Boston 2012, CC- BY 3.0 Mariya Gershteyn.jpg

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| caption = Naum Korzhavin in 2012

| native_name = Наум Моисеевич Коржавин

| native_name_lang = Russian

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| birth_name = Naum Moiseyevich Mandel

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1925|10|14}}

| birth_place = Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2018|06|22|1925|10|14}}

| death_place = Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States{{Cite web |url=https://www.gazeta.ru/culture/news/2018/06/22/n_11691265.shtml |title=Умер Наум Коржавин |website=Газета.Ru}}

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| language = Russian

| nationality = Russian

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| citizenship = {{Flag|Soviet Union}}, {{Flag|United States}}

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| alma_mater = Maxim Gorky Literature Institute{{Cite web |url=https://vrochko.wordpress.com/2014/01/12/%d1%81%d0%b5%d0%bc%d0%b8%d0%bd%d0%b0%d1%80-%d1%8e%d0%bd%d1%8b%d1%85-%d0%bf%d0%be%d1%8d%d1%82%d0%be%d0%b2/ |title=СЕМИНАР ЮНЫХ ПОЭТОВ |date=12 January 2014}}

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| genre = poetry, essays, memoirs

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| awards = Big Book National Award (2006)

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Nahum (Naum{{Cite book |last=Кантор |first=Максим |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2nrJF3c_rx4C&pg=PT255 |title=Совок и веник (сборник) |date=20 December 2018 |publisher=Litres |isbn=978-5457172678 }}) Moiseyevich Korzhavin ({{langx|ru|Нау́м Моисе́евич Коржа́вин}}; real surname Mandel, {{langx|ru|Мандель}}; 14 October 1925 – 22 June 2018[https://meduza.io/news/2018/06/22/umer-poet-naum-korzhavin Умер поэт Наум Коржавин]) was a Russian poet of Jewish descent,{{Cite web |url=http://www.themoscowtimes.com/arts_n_ideas/article/radical-heart-beats-anew/351630.html |title=Radical Heart Beats Anew |last=Marson |first=James |date=18 December 2007 |website=The Moscow Times |access-date=8 September 2011}} a dissident and emigrant who moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1973 and lived there 43 years.{{Cite news |last=Mydans |first=Seth |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/23/books/writing-without-roots.html?pagewanted=all |title=Writing Without Roots |date=23 September 1984 |work=The New York Times |access-date=8 September 2011 |page=1}} He spent the last two years of his life in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to be near family.{{Cite web |url=https://www.chayka.org/node/6765 |title=Науму Коржавину 90. Биографический очерк |date=13 October 2015 |website=Журнал "Чайка"}}

Korzhavin was given the Big Book National Award-2006 for his contribution to literature. He was the only Big Book finalist to get into the short-list with a book of memoirs.

Korzhavin created a vivid detailed picture of his life and his country in his prose work under the expressive title In Temptations of the Bloody Epoch.

In 2005 Korzhavin participated in They Chose Freedom, a four-part television documentary on the history of the Soviet dissident movement.