Maxim Gorky Literature Institute

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The Maxim Gorky Literature Institute (Russian Литературный институт имени А.М. Горького / Literaturny institut imeni AM Gorkowo ) is a college for literary creation and artistic Translate in Moscow. It is a world-renowned training ground for writers, poets and journalists and has produced many famous personalities.

The Institute was established as a part-time Workers University in 1933 at the suggestion of Maxim Gorky and 1936 renamed Maxim Gorky Institute of Literature. Until 1991 it was placed under the Writers' Union of the Soviet Union and the Ministry responsible for higher education or Committee of the USSR. Since 1992 it is under the Russian Ministry of Education and Science. It is located in the birthplace of Alexander Herzen on Tverskoy bulwar 25

There are two faculties ( Normal study and distance learning) and nine departments: foreign literature, foreign languages, literary creation, social sciences, Russian language and style, classical Russian literature and Slavic Studies, Russian 20th century literature, theory of literature and literary criticism as well as Artistic Translate. Rector is Boris N. Tarasov (Russian: Борис Николаевич Тарасов ). Candidates are, among others, based on their own literary works at the entrance exam selected. The number of students is 265 in normal study and 406 in distance learning. The theses are literary works or artistic translations. After finishing the regular studies, there is the Degree of literature creators and the translator of artistic literature.

Among the lecturers and teachers belonged example, the following writers: Konstantin Fedin, Konstantin Paustovsky, Anatoly Pristawkin, Alexander Zinoviev, Viktor Shklovsky and Yuri Trifonov.

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, Yuri Trifonov, Ismail Kadare, Vladimir Tendryakov, Anatoly Kim, Ak Welsapar, Rassoul Gamzatov Yuri Andruchowytsch, Halima Xudoyberdiyeva, Polina Daschkowa, Mykola Rjabtschuk, Ibrahim al -Koni, Anatoly Pristawkin, Masha Rolnikaite, Begdsiin Jawuuchulan, Lew Oschanin, Gennady Alamija, Vladimir Karpov and Jaan Kruusvall.