Mykola Riabchuk ( uk, Рябчук Микола Юрійович; born September 27, 1953, in

Lutsk Lutsk ( uk, Луцьк, translit=Lutsk}, ; pl, Łuck ; yi, לוצק, Lutzk) is a city on the Styr River in northwestern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Volyn Oblast (province) and the administrative center of the surrounding Lu ...

) - Ukrainian public intellectual, journalist, political analyst, literary critic, translator and writer. Riabchuk is known for his analytical articles and essays on Ukrainian politics, national identity and analysis of Ukrainian history from postcolonial perspective. Married to Ukrainian poet

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Biography

Riabchuk was born in

in western Ukraine. He studied engineering at

Lviv Polytechnic Lviv Polytechnic National University ( ua, Націона́льний університе́т «Льві́вська політе́хніка») is the largest scientific university in Lviv, Ukraine. Since its foundation in 1816, it has bee ...

. He was a member of the literary group around Hryhoriy Chubay with whom he authored the

samizdat Samizdat (russian: самиздат, lit=self-publishing, links=no) was a form of dissident activity across the Eastern Bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground makeshift publications, often by hand, and passed the document ...

literary almanach "Skrynya", for which he was expelled from the university. Consequently, he took different jobs including working for the railway, theater electrician, etc. In 1988 Riabchuk graduated from

Maxim Gorky Literature Institute The Maxim Gorky Literature Institute (russian: Литературный институт им. А. М. Горького) is an institution of higher education in Moscow. It is located at 25 Tverskoy Boulevard in central Moscow. History The insti ...

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. From 1985 till 1994 Riabchuk worked as an editor of the "

Vsesvit ''Vsesvit'' ( uk, Всесвіт, ''Vsesvit'') is a Ukrainian periodical that publishes exclusive translations of world classics and contemporary works of literature, covers different aspects of cultural, artistic, social, and political life in all ...

" journal dedicated to translations of literature from foreign languages. In the 1990s Riabchuk was the editor of Suchasnist magazine, which published new Ukrainian literature, he is responsible for bringing several now famous Ukrainian writers to the broad audience.Mark Andryczyk. The Intellectual as Hero in 1990s Ukrainian Fiction. Kindle e-book. Location 2332 of 4007, Chapter 7: A Community of Others. Riabchuk was one of the founders of the

Krytyka ''Krytyka'' ( uk, Критика; "Critique") is a Ukrainian intellectual monthly/bi-monthly magazine and publishing house dedicated to in-depth analysis of current affairs, culture and book reviews in Ukraine and the region. ''Krytyka'' was founde ...

magazine. Since 1997 he is a member of the Association of Ukrainian Writers. Writes a weekly column for "Gazeta po-ukrayinsky". Riabchuk is currently a research fellow at the Ukrainian Center for Cultural Studies in Kyiv. In 2005 he received a Candidate Degree in Political Science at the Institute for Political and Ethnic Studies National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Awards

* POLCUL Award, 1998 * Polish-Ukrainian Capitula Award in 2002 for his contribution to Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation. * Book of the Year Award, 2000 and 2003 *

Antonovych prize The Antonovych Prize is an annual award of US$10,000 given by the Omelian and Tetiana Antonovych Foundation since 1981 for literary works written in Ukrainian and for research in Ukrainian studies. Institutions, individuals, and members of the pr ...

in 2003 for outstanding achievements in the humanities

Books

* Winter in Lviv (collection of poems) * Ukraine on Its Meandering Path Between East and West (Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe) by Andrej N. Lushnycky (Editor), Mykola Riabchuk (Editor) (2009) * Mykoła Riabczuk ''Od Małorosji do Ukrainy'' (2003) * Od Malorusije do Ukrajine. - Beograd: Svetozar Markovic, 2003 * Mykoła Riabczuk ''Dwie Ukrainy'' (2004) * Mykoła Riabczuk Ogród Metternicha Wrocław: Kolegium Europy Wschodniej, 2010 * Riabchuk ''De La Petite Russie a L'Ukraine'' (2003) * Mykola Rjabtschuk ''Die reale und die imaginierte Ukraine'' (2005) * Mykola Riabchuk
Gleichschaltung. Authoritarian Consolidation in Ukraine 2010–2012 (ENG)
' (2012)

References

External links

Mykola Riabchuk at the National Endowment for Democracy

Articles by Mykola Riabchik

Mykola Riabchuk National Academy of sciense of Ukraine

Articles by Mykola Riabchik
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