Yevgeny Chigrin

Yevgeny Mikhailovich Chigrin (Евгений Михайлович Чигрин; born September 16, 1961) is a Russian poet and essayist living in Moscow (since 2002).

Biograрhy
Born in 1961 in the town of Mala Vyska.

He has published poems in the magazines “New World”, “Friendship of Peoples”, “Continent”, “Zvezda”, “Neva”, “Arion”, “Interpoetry”, “Bulletin of Europe”, “Yunost”, “Foreign Notes” (Germany), “Khreshchatyk” (Germany), “Day and Night”, “Southern Lights”, “Rubezh”, “New Poland”, “Ural”, “Baikal”, “Ring A” and in other literary magazines and almanacs, as well as in a number of prestigious European and Russian anthologies. He is the author of Literaturnaya Gazeta.

Member of the PEN International.

In 2014, a book of Chigrin's lyrics “Teamster” was published in Ukrainian translation. Translator: Ihor Pavlyuk.

Evgeny Rein noted that “Chigrin is a poet who appeared when “the paths of the avant-garde, realism, and modernity were over, from which it naturally follows that the poet does not follow any of them”. Andrei Bitov once expressed a similar idea. Pavel Basinsky considers Chigrin "one of the most brilliant modern poets".

In 2023, it became known that Chigrin had prostate cancer.