NEWSLINK: “Yevgeny Yevtushenko obituary. Rebellious Russian poet and author of Babi Yar, who became a celebrity in the west” – The Guardian (UK)/Robin Milner-Gulland

“… Yevtushenko was from early on obsessed with travel, first within the USSR and then, as invitations came in from abroad, anywhere in the world he could manage to get to. By 1962 he had become a celebrity outside Russia, and featured on the cover of Time magazine. His many public readings in the west were packed, and a slim volume of translations became the biggest-selling book of foreign poetry in English. He sought out meetings with famous people – TS Eliot in London, Robert Kennedy in the US – not just for name-dropping purposes, but to see for himself the makers and movers of the modern world. …”