Evgenii Yevtushenko
- Containers:
- Box 153-154 (MS 4887)
- Component identifier:
- Series 27
- Content Summary:
- Russian poet Evgenii Yevtushenko visited Australia in 1966 to take part in the Adelaide Festival of Arts. The series consists of papers relating to the Festival, Yevtushenko's itinerary, typescript copies of his poems, the article 'The poet as a public figure' published in The Bulletin 12 March 1966: 24-25. Yevtushenko later visited Sydney where he read his poems at a public meeting at the Old Tote Theatre. As well, the papers contain notes, drafts and typescripts of Hardy's articles for the Sunday Times (London) in 1968, when Yevtushenko won the 'students candidate ballot' for the election of Oxford's Professor of Poetry. Three copies of Yevtushenko : selected poems (1962), in Penguin Modern European Poets series are also included.
- Immediate source of acquisition:
- The papers of the writer Frank Hardy were purchased by the Library in seven consignments between 1975 and 1988.
Access and use
- Parent Restrictions:
- Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2060293).
- Parent Terms of Access:
- Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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