Ukrainian language
Ukrainian ( uk, украї́нська мо́ва, translit=ukrainska mova, label=native name, ) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family. It is the native language of about 40 million people and the official state lan ...
.
Ukrainian literature mostly developed under foreign domination over Ukrainian territories, foreign rule by the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and, after 1791, as the Commonwealth of Poland, was a bi- confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Poland and Lithuania ru ...
,
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
, the
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...
, the
Kingdom of Romania
The Kingdom of Romania ( ro, Regatul României) was a constitutional monarchy that existed in Romania from 13 March ( O.S.) / 25 March 1881 with the crowning of prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen as King Carol I (thus beginning the Romanian ...
, the
Austria-Hungary Empire
Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire,, the Dual Monarchy, or Austria, was a constitutional monarchy and great power in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. It was formed with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of ...
, and the
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...
, enriched Ukrainian culture and language, and Ukrainian authors were able to produce a rich literary heritage.
Ukrainian literature’s precursor: writings in Old-Church Slavonic and Latin in Ukraine
Prior to the establishment of Ukrainian literature in 1700s, many authors from Ukraine wrote in "scholarly" languages of middle-ages –
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...
Yuriy Drohobych
Yuriy Drohobych or Yuriy Kotermak, uk, Юрій Дрогобич, pl , Jerzy Drohobycz, Jerzy Kotermak Drusianus, Georgius Drohobicz, by birthname Yuriy Kotermak, Giorgio da Leopoli (1450 in Drohobych – 4 February 1494 in Kraków) was a Ukrai ...
During this period of history there was a higher number of elementary schools per population in the Hetmanate than in either neighboring
Muscovy Muscovy is an alternative name for the Grand Duchy of Moscow (1263–1547) and the Tsardom of Russia (1547–1721). It may also refer to:
*Muscovy Company, an English trading company chartered in 1555
* Muscovy duck (''Cairina moschata'') and Domes ...
or
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
. In the 1740s, of 1,099 settlements within seven regimental districts, as many as 866 had primary schools. The German visitor to the Hetmanate, writing in 1720, commented on how the son of Hetman Danylo Apostol, who had never left
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
, was fluent in the Latin, Italian, French, German, Polish and Russian languages
Late 16th and early 17th century included the rise of folk epics called '' dumy''. These songs celebrated the activities of the Cossacks and were oral retellings of major Ukrainian historical events in modern Ukrainian language (i.e., not in Old-Church Slavonic). This period produced
Ostap Veresai
Ostap Mykytovych Veresai ( uk, Остап Микитович Вересай) (1803–April 1890) was a renowned minstrel and kobzar from the Poltava Governorate (now Chernihiv oblast) of the Russian Empire (now Ukraine). He helped to popularize k ...
, a renowned
minstrel
A minstrel was an entertainer, initially in medieval Europe. It originally described any type of entertainer such as a musician, juggler, acrobat, singer or fool; later, from the sixteenth century, it came to mean a specialist entertainer ...
and
kobzar
A ''kobzar'' ( ua, кобзар, pl. kobzari ua, кобзарі) was an itinerant Ukrainian bard who sang to his own accompaniment, played on a multistringed bandura or kobza.
Tradition
Kobzars were often blind and became predominantly so b ...
The establishment of Ukrainian literature is believed to have been triggered by the publishing of a widely successful poem '' Eneida'' by
Ivan Kotliarevsky
Ivan Petrovych Kotliarevsky ( uk, Іван Петрович Котляревський) ( in Poltava – in Poltava, Russian Empire, now Ukraine) was a Ukrainian writer, poet and playwright, social activist, regarded as the pioneer of modern Ukra ...
in 1798, which is one of the first instances of a printed literary work written in modern Ukrainian language. Due to Kotliarevsky's role as the inaugurator of Ukrainian literature, among literary critics he is often referred to as "the father of Ukrainian literature".Parody and Burlesque // Hardie, Philip. ''The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid.'' London: Bloomsbury Publishing. 2014. 264 p: 187 Modern Ukrainian prose was inaugurated by
Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko
Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko ( ua, Григорій Квітка-Основ'яненко, 29 November 1778 – 20 August 1843) was a Ukrainian writer, journalist, and playwright. Founder of Ukrainian classicist prose. He was born in the vicinity ...
’s novel Marusya (1834).Ukrainian literature // Encyclopædia Britannica 15th ed. (second version, Micropædia) Vol. 12: (1985–2010). 948 p.: p. 111 Ukrainian literature // Encyclopædia Britannica Online, 2019
Iryna Vilde
Ukrainian writer Iryna Vilde (pseudonym of Daryna Dmytrivna Makohon) was born on 5 May 1907 in Czernowitz (Chernivtsi), Austro-Hungarian monarchy and died on 30 October 1982 in Lviv. Her father was Dmytro Makohon, a lecturer and writer on folk arts. She graduated from Lviv University in 1932. She was married to Eugene Polotnyuk.
From 1930 to 1939 she published short stories and novels about the life of Western Ukrainian intelligentsia, the petty bourgeoisie and students. In 1935 she, for the first time under the pseudonym "Iryna Vilde" published the novel "The Butterflies in high heels" (Ukrainian "Meteliki na shpilkah").
After the reunification of Western Ukraine with Ukrainian SSR, she continued to describe the familiar themes of family in bourgeois society. She is the author of many short stories, novellas and novels. Her work contain a huge number of characters – protagonists from all public layers of the then Galicia – of the clergy, employees, workers, peasants, petty bourgeoisie, as well as information on the activities of various parties and public organizations, the Polish administration policy, the economy, education and the culture.
Some of her work are: The collection of short stories "Bizarre Heart" (1936), the story "Adult Children" (1939), a collection of lyrical miniatures "Okrushyny" (1969), the trilogy "Butterflies heels" (2007), novels "Adult Children" (1952), "Sisters Richynski" (Book 1 – 1958 book 2 – 1964), the trilogy "Butterflies on hairpins" (2007). "Sisters Richynski" is considered to be her most creative achievement.
Contemporary literature
Since the late 1980s, and particularly after the independence of Ukraine (1991) and disappearance of Soviet censorship the whole generation of writers emerged: Sofia Maidanska, Ihor Kalynets, Moysey Fishbein, Yuri Andrukhovych, Serhiy Zhadan,
Oksana Zabuzhko
Oksana Stefanivna Zabuzhko ( uk, Окса́на Стефа́нівна Забу́жко) is a Ukrainian novelist, poet, and essayist. Her works have been translated into several languages. She has been accused of relativising the Volhynian Massa ...
Ukrainian notable writers include (alphabetically):
*
Emma Andijewska
Emma Andijewska (or ''Emma Andiievska'', uk, Емма Андієвська, link=no) (born March 19, 1931 in Stalino) is a modern Ukrainian poet, writer and painter. Her works are marked with surrealist style. Some of Andijewska's works have ...
Ivan Bahrianyi
Ivan Bahrianyi ( uk, Іван Багряний) (2 October 1906 – 25 August 1963) was a Ukrainian writer, essayist, novelist and politician, Shevchenko prize awardee (1992, postmortem). The writer's real name was Ivan Pavlovych Lozoviaha (Lozo ...
*
Mykola Bazhan
Mykola Platonovych Bazhan (; – 23 November 1983) was a Soviet Ukrainian writer, poet, highly decorated political and public figure. He was an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1951), Merited Science Specialist o ...
Ivan Drach
Ivan Fedorovych Drach ( uk, Іва́н Фе́дорович Драч; 17 October 1936 – 19 June 2018) was a Ukrainian poet, screenwriter, literary critic, politician, and political activist.
Drach played an important role in the founding of Ru ...
*
Ivan Franko
Ivan Yakovych Franko (Ukrainian: Іван Якович Франко, pronounced ˈwɑn ˈjɑkowɪtʃ frɐnˈkɔ 27 August 1856 – 28 May 1916) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, interpreter, economist, ...
Oles Honchar
Oleksandr "Oles" Terentiyovych Honchar ( uk, Олесь Терентійович Гончар; 3 April 1918 – 12 December 1995) was a Soviet and Ukrainian writer and public figure. He also was a veteran of World War II and member of the Ukraini ...
*
Yevhen Hutsalo
Yevhen Hutsalo (14 January 1937 – 4 July 1995 ) was a Ukrainian writer and journalist.
Biography
Hutsalo was born in Staryi Zhyvotiv, Vinnytsia oblast. He graduated from the Nizhyn Pedagogical Institute in 1959, and was first published in 19 ...
Iryna Kalynets
Iryna Onufriyivna Kalynets ( uk, Іри́на Ону́фріївна Калине́ць, 6 December 1940, Lviv – 31 July 2012, Lviv) was a Ukraine, Ukrainian poet, writer, activist and Soviet dissident during the 1970s. Kalynets was the wife o ...
Mykola Khvylovy
Mykola Khvylovy ( ; – May 13, 1933) (who also used the pseudonyms "Yuliya Umanets", "Stefan Karol", and "Dyadko Mykola") was a Ukrainian novelist, poet, publicist, and political activist, one of the founders of post-revolutionary Ukraini ...
Lina Kostenko
Lina Vasylivna Kostenko ( uk, Ліна Василівна Костенко; born 19 March 1930) is a Ukrainian poet, journalist, writer, publisher, and former Soviet dissident. A founder and leading representative of the Sixtiers poetry movem ...
Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky
Mykhailo Mykhailovych Kotsiubynsky ( uk, Михайло Михайлович Коцюбинський), (September 17, 1864 – April 25, 1913) was a Ukrainian author whose writings described typical Ukrainian life at the start of the 20th centur ...
*Ludmyla Kovalenko
*Oleh Koverko
*
Mykola Kulish
Mykola Hurovych Kulish ( uk, Микола Гурович Куліш) (19 December 1892 – 3 November 1937) was a Ukrainian prose writer, playwright, pedagogue, veteran of World War I, and Red Army veteran. He is considered to be one of the le ...
Ivan Kulyk
Ivan Yulianovych Kulyk ( uk, Іван Юліанович Кулик; born Izrail Yudelevich Kulyk; January 14, 1897 – October 10, 1937) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, translator, diplomat and Communist Party activist. He also wrote under the na ...
Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky
Ivan Semenovych Nechuy-Levytsky (born Levytsky; – 2 April 1918) was a well-known Ukrainian writer.
Biography
Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky was born on to the family of a peasant priest in Stebliv (Cherkasy Oblast in central Ukraine). In 1847 he en ...
Joseph Oleskiw
Dr. Joseph Oleskiw or Jósef Olesków ( uk , Іосифъ Олеськôвъ (historic spelling), Осип Олеськів (modern spelling), ''Osyp Oleskiv'', September 28, 1860 – October 18, 1903) was a Ukrainian professor of agronomy who p ...
Olena Pchilka
Olha Petrivna Kosach (29 June 1849 – 4 October 1930), better known by her pen name Olena Pchilka ( uk, Олена Пчілка), was a Ukrainian publisher, writer, ethnographer, interpreter, and civil activist. She was the sister of Mykhailo ...
*
Valerian Pidmohylny
Valerian Petrovych Pidmohylny (Ukrainian: Валер'ян Петрович Підмогильний; 2 February 1901 - 3 November 1937) was a Ukrainian modernist, most famous for the realist novel '' Misto'' (The City). Like a number of Ukra ...
Maksym Rylsky
Maksym Tadeyovych Rylsky ( uk, Максим Тадейович Рильський; russian: Максим Фадеевич Рыльский; in Kyiv – 24 July 1964 ''id.'') was a Ukrainian poet, translator, academician, Doctor of Philologi ...
*
Taras Shevchenko
Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko ( uk, Тарас Григорович Шевченко , pronounced without the middle name; – ), also known as Kobzar Taras, or simply Kobzar (a kobzar is a bard in Ukrainian culture), was a Ukrainian poet, wr ...
*
Valeriy Shevchuk
Valeriy Shevchuk (born August 20, 1939, in Zhytomyr) is a Ukrainian writer.
The most prominent books of the writer include “In the Midweek” (1967), “The Esplanade 12” (1968), “The Scream of the Rooster at Dawn” (1979), “On a Humbl ...
Volodymyr Sosyura
Volodymyr Mikolayovich Sosiura ( uk , Володимир Сосюра; January 6, 1898, in Debaltseve, Yekaterinoslav Governorate (today Donetsk Oblast) of the Russian Empire – January 8, 1965, in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union) was a ...
*
Vasyl Stefanyk
Vasyl Semenovych Stefanyk ( uk, Васи́ль Семе́нович Стефа́ник; May 14, 1871 – December 7, 1936) was an influential Ukrainian modernist writer and political activist. He was a member of the Austrian parliament from 1 ...
*
Vasyl Stus
Vasyl Semenovych Stus ( uk, Васи́ль Семе́нович Стус; 6 January 1938, Rakhnivka, Ukrainian SSR – 4 September 1985, Perm-36, Kuchino, Russian SFSR) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, literary critic, journalist, and an active ...
*
Vasyl Symonenko
Vasyl Andriiovych Symonenko ( uk, Василь Андрійович Симоненко; 8 January 1935 – 13 December 1963) was a Ukrainian poet, journalist, activist of dissident movement. He is considered one of the most important figures in ...
*Yuriy Tarnavsky
*
Olena Teliha
Olena Ivanivna Teliha ( uk, Олена Іванівна Теліга, July 21, 1906 – February 21, 1942) was a Ukrainian poet and Ukrainian activist of Ukrainian and Belarusian ethnicity.
Biography
Olena Teliha was born in the village of Ilyi ...
*
Hryhir Tiutiunnyk
Hryhir Mykhaylovych Tiutiunnyk ( uk, Григір Михайлович Тютюнник, 1931–1980) was a Ukrainian writer,Roman HorbykGames from the Past: "The continuity and change of the identity dynamic in Donbas from a historical perspe ...
*
Pavlo Tychyna
Pavlo Hryhorovych Tychyna ( uk, Павло Григорович Тичина; – September 16, 1967) was a major Ukrainian poet, translator, publicist, public activist, academician, and statesman. He composed the lyrics to the Anthem of the Ukr ...
Volodymyr Vynnychenko
Volodymyr Kyrylovych Vynnychenko ( ua, Володимир Кирилович Винниченко, – March 6, 1951) was a Ukrainian statesman, political activist, writer, playwright, artist, who served as the first Prime Minister of Ukraine. ...
Oksana Zabuzhko
Oksana Stefanivna Zabuzhko ( uk, Окса́на Стефа́нівна Забу́жко) is a Ukrainian novelist, poet, and essayist. Her works have been translated into several languages. She has been accused of relativising the Volhynian Massa ...
*
Pavlo Zahrebelnyi
Pavlo Arhypovych Zahrebelnyi ( uk, Павло́ Архи́пович Загребе́льний) or Zagrebelnyi (russian: link=no, Павел Архипович Загребе́льный; 25 August 1924 – 3 February 2009) was a Soviet and Ukr ...
*
Mykola Zerov
Mykola Kostiantynovych Zerov (Ukrainian: Микола Костянтинович Зеров; 26 April 1890, in Zinkiv, Poltava Governorate – 3 November 1937, in Sandarmokh, KareliaSerhiy Zhadan
List of Ukrainian-language writers
This is a list of authors who have written works of prose and poetry in the Ukrainian language.
A
*Nikolai Amosov (1913–2002), novelist, essayist, and medical writer
* Emma Andijewska (born 1931), novelist, poet, and short story writer
* Nadi ...
*
Shevchenko National Prize
Shevchenko National Prize ( uk, Націона́льна пре́мія Украї́ни і́мені Тараса́ Шевче́нка; also ''Shevchenko Award'') is the highest state prize of Ukraine for works of culture and arts awarded since ...
Ukrainian studies Ukrainian studies is an interdisciplinary field of research dedicated to Ukrainian language, literature, history and culture in a broad sense.
Ukrainian studies outside Ukraine
A number of research institutes outside of Ukraine focus on Ukrainia ...
* Ukrainian Literature at the END of the millennium. Preview By: Chernetsky, Vitaly. World Literature Today, Spring2002
* Iryna Drobot. Vasyl' Stefanyk's Short Stories: The Narrative Modernization Problem.
* The Interdependence of Literature – Webster's Ukrainian. Thesaurus Edition by Georgina Pell Curtis (Kindle Edition – 23 July 2008)
* For a Crust of Bread (Women's Voices in Ukrainian Literature, Vol. VI) by Nataliya Kobrynska and Roma Franko (25 October 2000)
* Ukrainian Literature in the Twentieth Century: A Reader's Guide by George S. N. Luckyj (Mar 1992)
* Anamorphosic Texts and Reconfigured Visions: Improvised Traditions in Contemporary Ukrainian and Irish Literature (Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society 62) by Maryna Romanets and Andreas Umland (Paperback – 2 October 2007)
* But... The Lord Is Silent: Selected prose fiction by Olha Kobylianska and Yevheniya Yaroshynska (Women's Voices in Ukrainian Literature Vol. III) by Roma Franko (10 September 1999)
* From Heart to Heart: Selected prose fiction by Hrytsko Hryhorenko and Lesya Ukrainka (Women's Voices in Ukrainian Literature Vol. IV) by Hrytsko Hryhorenko (Paperback – 15 November 1999)
* The Life of Paisij Velyckovs'kyj (Harvard Library of Early Ukrainian Literature: Translations) by Anthony-Emil Tachiaos and J. M. E. Featherstone (Hardcover – 15 August 1990)
* Treasury of Ukrainian Love: Poems, Quotations & Proverbs in Ukrainian and English by Helene Turkewicz-Sanko (Kindle Edition – 30 April 1997) – Kindle Book
* The Hagiography of Kievan Rus (Harvard Library of Early Ukrainian Literature: Translations) by Paul Hollingsworth (Paperback – 10 December 1992)
* The Paterik of the Kievan Caves Monastery (Harvard Library of Early Ukrainian Literature: Translations) by Muriel Heppell (Hardcover – 22 June 1989)
* A History of Ukrainian Literature (From the 11th to the End of the 19th Century): With an Overview of the Twentieth Century (Annals of the Ukrainian Academy … and Sciences in the U.S., Inc, Vol 17–19) by Dmitrij Tschizewskij, George S. N. Luckyj, Dolly Ferguson, and Doreen Gorsline (Hardcover – May 1997)
* The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukrainian Jew by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (Kindle Edition – 28 April 2009)
* Hryjorij Hrabjanka's the Great War of Bohdan Xmel'nyc'kyj (Harvard Library of Early Ukrainian Literature:, Vol. 9) by Hryhorij Hrabjanka (1991)
* Canuke Literature: Critical Essays on Canadian Ukrainian Writing. (Book Review): An article from: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal by George Melnyk (Digital – 31 July 2005) – HTML
* Edificatory Prose of Kievan Rus (Harvard Library of Early Ukrainian Literature: Translations) by Kievan Rus, William R. Veder, and Anatolij A. Turilov (Hardcover – Sep 1994)
* Ukrainian Literature Through the Ages by Yevhen Shabliovsky (1 January 1970) Mistetstvo Publishers (Kiev), 1970, ncrd, (1 January 1970)
* Ukrainian Literature Through the Ages by Yevhen Shabliovsky, Abraham Mistetsky, and Andrew Marko (Paperback – 1 January 2001)
* Ukrainian Literature: Studies of the Leading Authors (Essay index reprint series) by Clarence A. Manning (Hardcover – Dec 1977)
* Ukrainian literature at the end of the millennium: the ten best works of the 1990s. (Currents).: An article from: World Literature Today by Vitaly Chernetsky (Digital – 30 July 2005)
* Bibliography of Ukrainian Literature in English and French: Translations and Critical Works (University of Ottawa Ukrainian Studies) by Oksana Piaseckyj (Paperback – Nov 1989)
* Russian and Ukrainian Literature on the Gypsy Moth: An Annotated Bibliography, by Yuri N. & Nikitenko, Galina N. & Montgomery, Michael E. Baranchikov (Paperback – 1 January 1998)
* The Old Rus' Kievan and Galician-Volhynian Chronicles: The Ostroz'kyj (Xlebnikov) and Cetvertyns'kyj (Pogodin) Codices (Harvard Library of Early Ukrainian Literature: Texts) by Omeljan Pritsak (Hardcover – Feb 1991)
* Sermons and Rhetoric of Kievan Rus (Harvard Library of Early Ukrainian Literature: Translations) by Simon Franklin (Hardcover – 1 April 1991)
* Becoming the hyphen: the evolution of English-language Ukrainian-Canadian literature.: An article from: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal by Lindy Ledohowski (Digital – 9 December 2008)
* Russian and Ukrainian Literature on the Gypsy Moth: An Annotated Bibliography by Yuri N. & Nikitenko, Galina N. & Montgomery, Michael E. Baranchikov (Paperback – 1 January 1998)
* Development of Ukrainian Literature in Czechoslovakia, 1945–1975 (European University Studies) by Josef Sirka (Paperback – Dec 1978) Peter Lang AG (December 1978)
* Vitaly Chernetsky, Mapping Postcommunist Cultures: Russia and Ukraine in the Context of Globalization (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007)
* Catherine Wanner, Communities of the Converted: Ukrainians and Global Evangelism (Cornell University Press, 2007).
* Alexandra Hrycak, “Foundation Feminism and the Articulation of Hybrid Feminisms in Post-Socialist Ukraine,” East European Politics and Societies 20.1 (2006): 69–100
* Natan M. Meir, “Jews, Ukrainians, and Russians in Kiev: Intergroup Relations in Late Imperial Associational Life,” Slavic Review 65.3 (2006): 475–501
*
Karel C. Berkhoff Karel Cornelis Berkhoff (born 1965) is a senior researcher at NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam.
Berkhoff studied history and Russian studies at the University of Amsterdam, Soviet Studies at Harvard University an ...
. The 'Russian' Prisoners of War in Nazi-Ruled Ukraine as Victims of Genocidal Massacre" (in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, vol. 15, nr. 1, 2001)
* Karel C. Berkhoff. "Ukraine under Nazi Rule (1941–1944): Sources and Finding Aids" (in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, vol. 45, nr. 1 en nr. 2, 1997)
* 3Karel C. Berkhoff. Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule. (Harvard University Press Harvest, 2004)
* Canuke Literature: Critical Essays on Ukrainian Writing by Sonia Mycak (Hardcover – Feb 2001)
* Rus Restored: Selected Writings of Meletij Smotryckyj (1610–1630) (Harvard Library of Early Ukrainian Literature: Translations) by Meletij Smotryckyj and David Frick (Hardcover – 31 March 2006)
* Ukrainian Literature Through The Ages by Yevhen (Translated By Abraham Mistetsky, Andrew Marko, Anatole Bilenko, & John Weir) Shabliovsky (Hardcover – 1 January 1970)
* From Heart to Heart: Selected prose fiction by Hrytsko Hryhorenko and Lesya Ukrainka (Women's Voices in Ukrainian Literature Vol. IV) by Hrytsko Hryhorenko (Paperback – 15 November 1999)
* The Life of Paisij Velyckovs'kyj (Harvard Library of Early Ukrainian Literature: Translations) by Anthony-Emil Tachiaos and J. M. E. Featherstone (Hardcover – 15 August 1990)
* Shakespeare in the Undiscovered Bourn: Les Kurbas, Ukrainian Modernism, and Early Soviet Cultural Politics. University of Toronto Press (20 April 2004)
* Irena R. Makaryk is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Ottawa.
* Ukrainian Modernism, 1910–1930 Museum; Foundation (2006)
* The New Generation and Artistic Modernism in the Ukraine (Studies in the Fine Arts Avant-Garde) Umi Research Pr (October 1986)
* Ukraine and Its Western Neighbors conference proceedings (December 2000). Author: James Clem and Nancy Popson, eds., James Clem, Executive Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University; Nancy Popson, Deputy Director, Kennan Institute.
* Borderland: A Journey through the History of Ukraine by Anna Reid (Paperback – 1 June 2000)
* Russia and Ukraine: Literature and the Discourse of Empire from Napoleonic to Postcolonial Times by Myroslav Shkandrij (Hardcover – Dec 2001)
* The slaughter of the Jews in the Ukraine in 1919 by Elias Heifetz (Unknown Binding – 1921)
* Myroslav Shkandrij. Russia and Ukraine: Literature and the Discourse of Empire from Napoleonic to Postcolonial Times.(Book Review): An article from: World Literature Today by Tatiana Nazarenko (Digital – 31 July 2005)
* Ukrainian literature at the end of the millennium: the ten best works of the 1990s. (Currents).: An article from: World Literature Today by Vitaly Chernetsky (Digital – 30 July 2005)
* Promoting a Global Community Through Multicultural Children's Literature: by Stanley F. Steiner (Paperback – 15 March 2001)
* Dutch Contributions to the Ninth International Congress of Slavists Kiev, 6–14 September 1983 Literature: Literature (Studies in Slavic Literature and … in Slavic Literature and Poetics, V. 2) by Ukraine International Congress of Slavists 1983 (Kiev, A. G. F. Van Holk, and A. G. F. Van Holk (Paperback – Jan 1983)
* Literary Politics in the Soviet Ukraine, 19171934. Rev. ed. (Studies of the Harriman Institute) by George Luckyj (Paperback – 1990)
* Christianity and the Eastern Slavs, Vol. III: Russian Literature in Modern Times. (California Slavic Studies) by Boris Gasparov, Robert P. Hughes, Irina Paperno, and Olga Raevsky-Hughes (Hardcover – 4 January 1996)
* Perspectives On Modern Central and East European Literature: Quests for Identity: Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European … Central and East European Studies Series) by Todd Patrick Armstrong (Hardcover – 7 April 2001)
* Ukraine: State and Nation Building (Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition, 9) by Taras Kuzio (Library Binding – 29 May 1998)
* Cold War Literature: Writing the Global Conflict (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature) by Andrew Hammond (Hardcover – 10 November 2005)
* Rebounding Identities: The Politics of Identity in Russia and Ukraine (Woodrow Wilson Center Press) by Dominique Arel and Blair A. Ruble (Hardcover – 29 November 2006)
* Ukraine At A Crossroads (Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe, V. 1) by Nicolas Hayoz and Andrej N. Lushnycky (Paperback – 8 March 2005)
* Down Singing Centuries: Folk Literature of the Ukraine by Louisa and LIVESAY, Dorothy (editors). LOEB (Hardcover – 1 January 1981)
* Harvard Ukrainian studies / Ukrainian Research Institute (104: SLA TS 305/ Bungehuis)
* Contested Tongues: Language Politics and Cultural Correction in Ukraine by Laada Bilaniuk (Paperback – 5 January 2006)
* Burden of Dreams: History and Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine by Catherine Wanner (Paperback – 1 October 1998)
* The Power of Delight: A Lifetime in Literature: Essays 1962–2002 by John Bayley and Leo Carey (Hardcover – 28 March 2005)
* Miracles & monasteries of SeventeenthCentury Ukraine: 10 (Harvard Library of Early Ukrainian Literature in English Translation) by P Lewin (Hardcover – 26 September 2007) – Import
* Beyond Postmodernism: Reassessments in Literature, Theory, and Culture by Klaus Stierstorfer (Hardcover – Sep 2003)
* Letters from Heaven: Popular Religion in Russia and Ukraine by John-Paul Himka and Andriy Zayarnyuk (Hardcover – 30 December 2006)
* The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 4, 1800–1900 (The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature 3) by Joanne Shattock (Hardcover – 28 March 2000)
* Ukraine, Russia and other Slavic countries in English literature;: A selected bibliography of books, pamphlets, articles, etc., published in English between 1912 and 1936 (Slavistica) by V. J. Kaye-Kysilevs'kyj (Unknown Binding – 1961)
* Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work by S. Lillian Kremer (Hardcover – Oct 2002)
* The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569–1999 by Mr. Timothy Snyder (Hardcover – 11 January 2003)
* The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature by Mary Beth Norton and Pamela Gerardi (Hardcover – April 1995)
* State and Institution Building in the Ukraine by Taras Kuzio, Robert S. Kravchuk, and Paul D'Anieri (Hardcover – 20 August 1999)
* The harvest of sorrow: Soviet collectivization and the terror-famine / by Robert Conquest George Robert Acworth Conquest (1917–) (172: OEI 118:112/ P.C. Hoofthuis-Spuistraat 134, 1e verdieping)
* Unpublished and forgotten writings: Political and intellectual trends of the nineteenth century modern Ukrainian literature (Sources of modern history of the Ukraine) by Volodymyr Mijakovskyj (Unknown Binding – 1984)
* The Ukrainian Diaspora (Global Diasporas) by Vic Satzewich (Hardcover – 14 January 2003)
* Nikolai Gogol: Between Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism by Edyta M. Bojanowska (Hardcover – 28 February 2007)
* Rote Zahlen / O. Butsenko. In: Zeitschrift für Kulturaustausch. 55(2005)1(12–13)
* Nach dem Revolution fordern ukrainische Kulturschaffende nun die Reform des Kulturbetriebs und das Ende der ineffizienten kommunistischen Strukturen.
* Anamorphosic Texts and Reconfigured Visions: Improvised Traditions in Contemporary Ukrainian and Irish Literature (Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society 62) by Maryna Romanets and Andreas Umland (Paperback – 2 October 2007)
* The Ukrainian Diaspora (Global Diasporas) by Vic Satzewich (Hardcover – 14 January 2003)
* Towards an Intellectual History of Ukraine: An Anthology of Ukrainian Thought from 1710 to 1995. (Review): An article from: The Modern Language Review by David Saunders (Digital – 28 July 2005)
* The Cultural Renaissance in Ukraine: Polemical Pamphlets 1925–26 by Mykola Khvylovy, Myroslav Shkandrij, and George S.N. Luckyj (Hardcover – Nov 1986)
* Memorandum To The Government Of The United States On The Recognition Of The Ukrainian People's Republic (1920) by Friends Of Ukraine (Hardcover – 20 March 2009)
* Ukraine at the Crossroads: Economic Reforms in International Perspective by Axel Siedenberg and Lutz Hoffmann (Paperback – 14 May 1999) – Illustrated
* Re-Thinking Europe: Literature and (Trans)National Identity. (Textxet Studies in Comparative Literature) by Nele Bemong, Mirjam Truwant, and Pieter Vermeulen (Paperback – 18 January 2008)
* Russian and Ukrainian Avant-Garde and Constructivist Books and Serials in the New York Public Library: A First Census & Listing of Artists Represented by Robert H. Davis and Margaret Sandler (Hardcover – Mar 1998)
* Ukrainian Futurism, 1914–1930: A Historical and Critical Study (Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies) by Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj (Paperback – 15 January 1998)
* Ancient Ukraine: Mysteries of the Trypilian Culture by Krzysztof Ciuk (Paperback – 1 November 2008)
* Religion and Culture in Early Modern Russia and Ukraine by Samuel H. Baron and Nancy Shields Kollmann (Hardcover – Feb 1997)
* The History of Ukraine (The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations) by Paul Kubicek (Hardcover – 30 September 2008)
* Spirit of Ukraine: Ukrainian contributions to world's culture by Dmytro Snowyd (Unknown Binding – 1935)
* Culture and Technology in the New Europe: Civic Discourse in Transformation in Post-Communist Nations (Civic Discourse for the Third Millennium) by Laura Lengel (Paperback – 3 May 2000)
* Ukrainian futurism: a historical and critical study. Ilnytzkyj, Oleh Stepan / Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University / 1997 (UBM: H 99-4800/ Singel-425)
* Toward a history of Ukrainian literature. Grabowicz, George G. / distrib. by Harvard University Press for the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute / 1981 (104: SLA U 50 : 50s Bungehuis-Spuistraat 210, 2e etage)
* Istorija ukrajins'koji literatury. Hrusevs'kyj, Mychajlo / Institut literatury im. T. H. Sevcenka nacional'noji Akademiji nauk Ukrajiny / 1995 (UBM: P 34-8820/ Singel 425)
* A history of Ukrainian literature, from the 11th to the end of the 19th century. Cyzevs'kyj, Dmytro / Ukrainian Academic Press / 1975 (UBM: H 77–63, Singel 425, UB magazijn)
* Ukrainian literature in English: books and pamphlets, 1890–1965: an annotated bibliography Tarnavs´ka, Marta / Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta / 1988 (UBM: Informatiecentr: 891.79, Singel 425)
* A history of Ukrainian literature: from the 11th to the end of the 19th century. Cyzevs'kyj, Dmytro / 2nd ed. / Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences etc. / 1997 (104: SLA U 50 : 47; Bungehuis)
* Ukrainian literature in English: articles in journals and collections, 1840–1965: an annotated bibliography. Tarnavs´ka, Marta / Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta / 1992 (UBM: Informatiecentrum: 891.79)
* Contemporary Ukrainian literature and national identity. Onyshkevych, Larissa M.L.Z. / American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) / 2006 (104: SLA TS 75 2006 050.3- Bungehuis)
* Ukrainian literature. Kasinec, Edward / Harvard University / 1977 (UBM: Br. f\0 L m 9)
* Taras Shevchenko and West European literature. Bojko, Jurij / Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain / 1956 (104: SLA U 75 : SE 23/ Bungehuis of UBM: Br. 3535-15 UB Magazijn)
* Ukrainian literature in the twentieth century: a reader's guide. Luckyj, George S.N. / Univ. of Toronto press / 1992 (UBM: H 96-1818)
* Hryhorij Savyc Skovoroda: an anthology of critical articles. Marshall, Richard H. / Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies / 1994 (UBM: H 97–306)
* Ukrainian futurism, 1914–1930: history, theory, and practice. Ilnytzkyj, Oleh Stepan / S.l. / 1983 (104: SLA U 85 : FUT 10 Bungehuis)
* Texts in Ukrainian. Rudnyc'kyj, Jaroslav Bohdan / Winnipeg / 1963 (UBM: X 5320 : 3)
* 18.51 Oekraïense taal – en/of letterkunde
* Alexander A. Potebnja's psycholinguistic theory of literature: a metacritical inquiry. Fizer, John / Harvard University Press for the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute / 1987 (UBM: H 89-2860)
* Monk Chrabr on Slavic writings: the oldest Cyrillic version of 1348. Chrabr / Repr. / Univ. of Manitoba Press / 1964 (104: SLA L 200 K : 30)
* Ukrajins'kyj literaturnyj avanhard: posuky, styl'ovi naprjamky. Bila, Anna / ->Vyd-. 2-->e, dopovnene i pereroblene- / Smoloskyp / 2006 (UBM: HK 07-183)
* Usi ukrajins'ki pys'mennyky. Chizova, Ju.I. / PP "Torsinh pljus" / 2006 (104: SLA U 12 : 36/ Bungehuis)
* ...Z poroha smerti : pys'mennyky Ukrajiny, zertvy stalins'kych represij. Musijenko, OleksaH. / Rad. pys'mennyk / 1991 UBM: HK 99–809
* Tvory. Stefanyk, Vasyl' / Kyjiv / 1971 (UBM: PK 70–448)
* Vasyl' Stefanyk u krytyci ta spogadach : statti, vyslovljuvannja, memuary. Pohrebennyk, F.P. / Kyjiv / 1969 (UBM: P 70–5011)
Ukrainian Literature in English, 1980–1989 by Marta Tarnawsky
Electronic Library of Ukrainian Literature – established under the auspices of the Institute of Encyclopedic Research, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
* An Anthology of Modern Ukrainian Drama (CIUS, 2012), Ed. Larissa M.L. Zaleska Onyshkevych
* Danylo Husar Struk. at th Encyclopedia of Ukraine * Existentialism in Modern Ukrainian Drama by Larissa M. L. Zaleska Onyshkevych (Ann Arbor, U. microfilms, 1973)
Slavic Literature Resources from the Slavic Reference Service, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign * "Tradition and Innovation in Twentieth-Century Ukrainian Verse Drama" by Larissa M. L. Zaleska Onyshkevych, In ''Creating a Modern Ukrainian Cultural Space,'' Ed. Myroslav Shkandrij, CIUS, 2000, 139-157.
* "The Problem of the Definitive Literary Text and Political Censorship" n Mykola Kulish's playsby Larissa M. L. Zaleska Onyshkevych, ''Perspectives on Modern Central and East European Literature: Quests for Identity''. Ed. Todd Patrick Armstrong. Palgrave, 2001, 25-37.
Ukrainian Latin literature