Maxim Gorky Literature Institute

Main building of the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute.

The Maxim Gorky Literature Institute (Russian: Литературный институт им. А. М. Горького) is a higher education institute in Moscow. It is located at 25 Tver Bulvar in Central Moscow.

It was founded in 1933 on the initiative of Maxim Gorky, and received its current name at Gorky's death in 1936.

Notable alumni

• Chinghiz Aitmatov (Novelist)
• Bella Akhmadulina (Poet)
• Maria Arbatova (Writer, feminist and politician)
• Viktor Astafyev (Novelist)
• Yuri Bondarev (Writer)
• Nambaryn Enkhbayar (Novelist, President of Mongolia between 2005—2009)
• Alexander Galich (Poet, singer-songwriter)
• Rasul Gamzatov (Poet)
• Anatoly Gavrilov (Writer)
• Boris Golovin (Poet, singer-songwriter)
• Fazil Iskander (Novelist)
• Ismail Kadare (Novelist, poet)
• Oleg Khafizov (Writer)
• Oleg Pavlov (Writer)
• Hovhannes Shiraz (Poet)
• Viktor Pelevin (Novelist)
• Viktor Rozov (Dramatist, screenwriter — "The Cranes Are Flying")
• Yury Trifonov (Writer)
• Yevgeny Yevtushenko (Poet, singer-songwriter, novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter)
• Pavel Basinsky (literary critic)
• Vasily Belov (writer)
• Yury Bondarev (writer)
• Yevgeny Dolmatovsky (poet)
• Yuri Kazakov (writer)
• Anatoly Kim (writer)
• Yuri Kuznetsov (poet)
• Nikolay Rubtsov (poet)
• Drago Siliqi (writer, literary critic, and publisher)
• Konstantin Simonov (writer)

References

• Holquist, Michael. Dialogism: Bakhtin and His World, Second Edition. Routledge, 2002.
• Holquist, Michael. “Introduction.” Speech Genres and Other Late Essays. By Mikhail Bakhtin. Eds. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986. ix-xxiii.

External links

• Homepage