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ENGLISH PEN TRANSLATION AWARD WINNER
as true poetry should
life-affirming journey into the culture of these beautiful languages
and courageously exploratory’
These ‘books’ gather poems in different metres and concentrate on specific themes
Vasili Tyorkin: A Book about a Soldier by Alexander Tvardovsky Abigail Parry ENGLISH PEN TRANSLATION AWARD WINNERVasili Tyorkin: A Book about a Soldier is one of the great epic poems of the Second World War. Published in army newspapers and broadcast on the radio between 1942 and 1945, it was hugely popular with Soviet soldiers, many of whom believed it was about a real person was real. Private Tyorkin is an accordion playing Everyman figure, who moves between comedy and reluctant heroism. He is a cheerful grumbler always on the lookout for food and a quick kip,
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