Maxim Gorki Literature Institute

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Maxim Gorki Literature Institute
founding 1933
Sponsorship state
place Moscow , Russia
Rector Alexei Varlamov
Website www.litinstitut.ru

The Maxim Gorki Literature Institute ( Russian Литературный институт имени А.М. Горького / Literaturny institut imeni AM Gorkowo ) is a university for literary creation and artistic translation in Moscow . It is a world-famous training center for writers, poets and journalists and has produced numerous famous personalities.

The classicist building of the Gorky Literature Institute

Predecessor of the Institute were Brjussow-Literatutinstitut ( Russian Высший литературно-художественный институт имени В. Я. Брюсова / Wysschyi literaturno-chudozhestwennyi Institute imeni WJ Brjussowa ) (1921-1925) and Brjussow courses ( Russian Высшие государственные литературные курсы / Wysschyje gossudarstwennyje literatutnyje kursy ) (1925-1929). The institute was founded in 1933 at the suggestion of Maxim Gorki as a part-time workers' university and renamed the Maxim Gorki Institute for Literature in 1936. Until 1991 it was subordinate to the Writers' Union of the Soviet Union and the Ministry or Committee of the USSR responsible for universities. From 1992–2014 it was subordinate to the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, and since 2014 it has been subordinate to the Russian Ministry of Education. It is located in the house where Alexander Herzens was born on Tverskoy Bulwar 25.

There are two faculties (normal and distance learning) and nine chairs: Foreign Literature, Foreign Languages, Literary Creation, Social Sciences, Russian Language and Style, Classical Russian and Slavic Literature, Russian Literature of the 20th Century, Theory of Literature and Literary Criticism, and Artistic Translation . The rector is Alexej N. Varlamow (Russian: Алексей Николаевич Варламов). Applicants are selected for the entrance exams based on their own literary works, among other things. The number of students is 500 in normal studies and 240 in distance learning. The diploma theses are literary works or artistic translations. The lecturers and teachers included, for example, the following writers: Konstantin Fedin , Konstantin Paustowski , Anatoli Pristawkin , Alexander Zinoviev , Viktor Shklowski and Yuri Trifonow .

Numerous well-known writers and journalists also studied at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute, including Gennadi Aigi , Chingiz Aitmatov , Bella Akhmadulina , Fasil Iskander , vizma belševica , Yodgor Obid , Konstantin Simonov , Ismail Kadare , Vladimir Tendryakov , Anatoly Kim , Ak Welsapar , Rassoul Gamzatov , Jurij Andruchowytsch , Halima Xudoyberdiyeva , Polina Daschkowa , Mykola Rjabtschuk , Ibrahim al-Koni , Anatoli Pristawkin , Mascha Rolnikaitė , Begdsiin Jawuuchulan , Lev Oschanin , Gennadi Alamija , Vladimir Karpow and Jaan Kruusvall .

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