The Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko has been hospitalized in a serious condition in the US, reports TASS. " Yevgeny was hospitalized in a serious condition. I cannot inform any details," said the poet's wife, Maria Novikova. She made it clear, that it was not a regular medical treatment.

Yevtushenko is 84 years old. He was born in the family of a geologist and an amateur poet Alexander Gangnusi in Irkutsk. At 19, he published his first book of poems, The Prospects of the Future. On the same year, he became the youngest member of the Soviet Writers Union. In 1963 he was nominated for the Nobel prize. He has more than 150 books, translated into different languages. Since 1991, he has been living in the United States.