Background
Nahum was born on October 14, 1925, in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Nahum Korzhavin
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Nahum studied at Maxim Gorky Literature Institute.
Career
Nahum recently moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to be near family. Korzhavin was given the Big Book National Award-2006 for his contribution to literature. He was the only Big Book finalist to get into the short-list with a book of memoirs.
Korzhavin created a vividly detailed picture of his life and his country in his prose work under the expressive title In Temptations of the Bloody Epoch. In 2005 Korzhavin participated in "They Chose Freedom", a four-part television documentary on the history of the Soviet dissident movement.
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United States