Igor Guberman
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Igor Guberman on the cover of his book Gariks for everyday |
Igor Guberman -
Игорь Миронович Ð"уберман (b.
1936) - Russian writer, poet, who received wide reputation because of its aphoristic and satiric quatrains, "gariki" (
Gariki).
Igor Guberman was born in
Moscow on
7 July 1936. After the school he entered the Moscow Institute for the Transportation Engineers (in contrast to a number of more prestigious Universities, there was not a maximal quota for
Jews). In
1958 he finished his Institute and obtained a diploma as an Electrical Engineer. For several years he worked in the profession, being in parallel occupied by literature. At the end 1950s he was introduced to
Alexander Ginzburg, who published one of the first
samizdat periodicals,
Syntax, and to other underground philosophers, writers, and artists.
Guberman wrote popular science books, but he gradually became more and more active as a
dissident poet. In his underground literature work Guberman used
pseudonyms, for example
I. Mironov,
Abram Khayyam (connection of a popular
Persian poet
Omar Khayyám and a Jewish first name Abram) .
In
1979 Guberman he was arrested and sentenced to five years of
Labor Camps. In his camp, he wrote diaries. On the basis of these diaries he wrote his book
Walks around the barracks (
1980, published in
1988).
In
1984 the poet returned from
Siberia. For long he could not get neither a job nor a
Propiska (residence permit) to live in Moscow. In
1987 Guberman emigrated from the
USSR, and since 1988 he has been living in
Jerusalem. He returns to Russia quite frequently, coming out to the poetic evenings. Books by Guberman have been published in Russia by the hundreds of thousands, and they are always popular.
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