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Boris Nartsissov (International) assertion Boris Nartsissov i(A96966 works by) (a.k.a. Boris Andreevich Nartsissov)
Born: Established: 1906
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Russia,
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Former Soviet Union,
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Eastern Europe, Europe, ;
Gender: Male
Visitor assertion Arrived in Australia: 1949 Departed from Australia: 1952
Heritage: Russian
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BiographyHistory

Boris Nartsissov grew up in Estonia and completed a Master of Science degree in Chemistry at the University of Tartu. He began writing poems in his student days. He came to Australia via Germany and stayed for two and a half years, first working in a vineyard near Sydney, then for 18 months in shale mining, before leaving to live permanently in the United States. Eventually, he obtained an important post in the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Some of his poetry includes references to Australia.

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Notes

  • Author writes in these languages: RUSSIAN
  • As well as the work listed, his first after leaving Australia, Boris Nartsissov published six other selected works of poetry in Russian between 1961 and 1983. These are Golosa : vtoraia kniga stikhov (Frankfurt, Germany, 1961), Pamiat : tretia kniga stikhov (Washington DC, 1965), Podém : chetvertaia kniga stikhov (Belgium, 1969), Shakhmaty : piataia kniga stikhov (Washington DC, 1974), Zvezdnaia ptitsa : novye stikhotvoreniia : sborniki (Washington DC, 1978) and Pis'mo samomu sebe : stiki, rasskazy (New York, 1983).
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