Ilya Kaminsky
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 47 |
| Date of birth | April 18,1977 |
| Zodiac sign | Aries |
| Born | Odesa |
| Ukraine | |
| Spouse | Katie Farris |
| Job | Translator |
| Professor | |
| Poet | |
| Author | |
| Critic | |
| Education | Georgetown University |
| UC Hastings College of the Law | |
| University of California College of the Law, San Francisco | |
| Brighton High School | |
| Books | Dancing in Odessa |
| Deaf Republic: Poems | |
| Musica Humana | |
| Dark Elderberry Branch | |
| One to Nothing | |
| Ilya Kaminsky Greatest Hits | |
| Awards | Whiting Awards |
| Lannan Literary Fellowship | |
| Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada | |
| Official site | ilyakaminsky.com |
| Current partner | Katie Farris |
| Languag | English, Russian |
| Nationality | American |
| Ukrainian | |
| Nominations | National Book Award for Poetry |
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| ID | 438286 |
Ilya Kaminsky Life story
Ilya Kaminsky is a hard-of-hearing, USSR-born, Ukrainian-Russian-Jewish-American poet, critic, translator and professor. He is best known for his poetry collections Dancing in Odesa and Deaf Republic, which have earned him several awards. In 2019, the BBC named Kaminsky among "12 Artists who changed the world".
Wilfred Owen and Philip Larkin GCSE removal 'cultural vandalism'
Removing poems by Philip Larkin and Wilfred Owen from a GCSE course has been described as " cultural vandalism" by the education secretary.
Nadhim Zahawi criticised the decision by exam board OCR and promised he would be speaking to its bosses.
The examining body said it made The Changes to the GCSE Poetry Anthology to offer more diversity.
" Larkin and Owen are two of our finest poets, " The Conservative MP for Stratford-upon-Avon tweeted.
" Removing their work from the curriculum is cultural vandalism. I will be speaking to The Exam board to make this clear. "
, is widely regarded As One of Britain's finest 20Th Century poets.
He took up The Position of librarian at the University of Hull in 1955 and, in the same year, published his acclaimed collection The Less Deceived.
While is known for his poems recording The Horrors of trench warfare during World War One.
They include Dulce Et Decorum Est, Anthem for Doomed Youth and Strange Meeting .
The Changes , first reported by The Times , are aimed at " offering more poems by contemporary and established poets of colour" OCR said.
It added the new poets would also include disabled and LGBT voices.
Among the new names are British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus and Ukrainian-American poet Ilya Kaminsky .
The board added The Poems being removed would have largely already been studied and assessed.
The Bbc is not responsible for the content of external sites.Mr Zahawi said his knowledge of the English Language had been improved as a teenager through Larkin's poems.
" We must not deny future students the chance to make a similarly powerful connection with a great British author, " He Said .
Source of news: bbc.com
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