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Russian poet, fiction writer, and playwright associated with the Lianozovo Group. A Pushkin Prize winner, he published three collections of poetry in the late 1990s.He died of a heart attack while traveling by bus to a launch event for his Poetry of Silence anthology.He and Leo Tolstoy were both Russian authors.
BEFORE FAMEHis poetry, like that of his Russian contemporaries, is known for its use of vernacular speech.
PERSONAL LIFEHis father was a Moscow-based engineer.
FUN FACTSPoet Genrikh Sapgir were born on Tuesday, in a leap year, birthstone is Topaz, the seaon was Fall in the Chinese year of Dragon, it is 317 days until Genrikh Sapgir next birthday.
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Jan. 08 1910
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