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Bu-Ba-Bu
Bu-Ba-Bu () is a literary performance group founded on April 17, 1985 in Lviv by three Ukraine, Ukrainian writers Yuri Andrukhovych, Yurii Andrukhovych, Viktor Neborak, and Oleksandr Irvanets. The group's three syllables stand for "burlesque, balagan, and buffonada". The idea behind the group's formation was in order to present a carnival like interpretation of events in Ukraine. The first public evening of Bu-Ba-Bu took place in late 1987 in Kiev, Kyiv. The period of the most active activity of Bu-Ba-Bu (23 concert poetry evenings) was 1987–1991. The apotheosis of Bu-Ba-Bu was the :uk:Вивих (фестиваль), Vyvykh-92 festival in 1992 (youth festival of alternative culture and non-traditional genres of art in Lviv). The brightest part of the festival were four performances of 1–4 October 1992, poetry opera ''Chrysler Imperial'' by Bu-Ba-Bu (directed by Serhiy Proskurnia, S. Proskurnia). In 1995, the first joint book of bubabists ''Bu-Ba-Bu. T.v.o.[…]ry'' was printe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuri Andrukhovych
Yurii Ihorovych Andrukhovych (, born March 13, 1960 in Stanislav, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian prose writer, poet, essayist, and translator. His English pen name is Yuri Andrukhovych. Andrukhovych is a representative of the Stanislav phenomenon, a group of Ivano-Frankivsk postmodernist writers and co-founder of the poetic group Bu-Ba-Bu. Biography As a child Andrukhovych attended a school with a focus on studying German language and dreamt to become an archaeologist or a rock star. According to his own memoirs, after recognizing his poor prospects in archaeology he decided to study journalism. In 1982 Andrukhovych graduated with a degree in editing from the Ukrainian Printing Institute in Lviv. In the following years he worked for a newspaper and completed army service. In 1985, Andrukhovych co-founded the Bu-Ba-Bu poetic group, which stands for «burlesque, side-show, buffoonery» (Ukrainian: ''бурлеск, балаган, буфонада'') together with Oleksandr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halyna Petrosanyak
Halyna Petrosanyak (; born 1969) is a Ukrainian poet, writer and translator. Life Halyna Petrosanyak was born in 1969 in a remote village in the Ukrainian Carpathians. She graduated in German and Russian studies from Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University. Petrosanyak was among the authors linked to the group known as the Stanislav phenomenon. She debuted in 1996 with her poetry book ''Парк на схилі'' ("Park on the hill"). A poem from the publication was awarded with the Bu-Ba-Bu "Best Poem of the Year" award. Petrosanyak is also the laureate of Hubert-Burda-Preis für junge Lyrik (2007) and the Ivan Franko Prize (2010). Her works have appeared in various literary magazines and almanacs and have been translated into several languages, including English, German, Polish, Russian, Czech and Italian. Petrosanyak works as a translator from Czech and German into Ukrainian. She has translated, among others, the autobiographies of Alexander Granach and Soma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petro Midyanka
Petro Mykolayovych Midyanka (born 14 May 1959), also known by his pen name Ropet Kamidyan, is a Ukrainian poet and teacher who became the a member of the National Writers' Union of Ukraine since 1994. He has spent almost his whole life, or more than 30 years, as a member of current Ukrainian literature, and he has never been overlooked for the highest literary accolades or the interest of readers and critics. Early life and education Born on 14 May 1959, in the Ukrainian village of Shyrykyy Lug. Midyanka received his secondary education in Khust, and later obtained his degree from Uzhhorod National University's Faculty of Philology. Following his graduation from university in 1982, he goes back to his hometown and starts teaching in the nearby town of Novoselytsia, then Tysolovo in Tiachiv Raion. Poetry work Midyanka is based in Transcarpathia and works there. His debut novel, ''Поріг'' (1987), was published by a publishing firm in Kyiv. He produced additional collectio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleksandr Irvanets
Oleksandr Vasyliovych Irvanets (; born 24 January 1961) is a Ukrainian poet, writer, playwright, and translator. Biography Born in Lviv, Irvanets spent his childhood in Rivne, where he attended school. In 1980 he graduated from Dubno pedagogical institute. In 1985 together with Yurii Andrukhovych and Vasyl Neborak Irvanets formed the literary group Bu-Ba-Bu, whose member he remains to this day. In 1989 he finished studies at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow. Since 1993 Irvanets has resided in Irpin. His works have been translated into numerous languages, including English, German, French, Swedish, Polish, Czech, Belarusian, Russian, Italian and Croatian. Since the early 2000s Irvanets has dedicated himself to drama and prose. He is the author of more than 20 books, as well as numerous publications in American and European journals. Bibliography *''Fire in the Rain'' (Lviv, 1986) *''Shadow of the Great Classic'' (Kyiv, 1991) *''Verse of the Last Decade'' (Lviv, 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary Ukrainian Literature
Contemporary Ukrainian literature refers to Ukrainian literature since 1991, the year of both Ukrainian independence and the collapse of the Soviet Union. From that year on, censorship in the Soviet Union ceased to exist and writers were able to break openly with the official socialist realism style of art, music, and literature. Principal changes had taken place in Ukrainian literature already under Perestroika (1985) and especially after the Chernobyl disaster. Some researchers consider that modern Ukrainian literature was born during the 1970s and founded by Soviet dissidents from the sixties generation. Due to the increased freedom and openness of Ukrainian society to foreign influences and much broader access to the literatures of other countries, contemporary Ukrainian literature is different from the literature of the Soviet and Classical periods. Writers often turn to previously forbidden topics (Holodomor, sexuality, drugs, deviant behavior, etc.), using new styles (postmo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Shevelov
George Shevelov (born ''Yuri Schneider'', 17 December 1908 – 12 April 2002) was a Ukrainian professor, linguist, philologist, essayist, literary historian, and literary critic. A longtime professor of Slavic philology at Columbia University, he challenged the prevailing notion of a unified East Slavic language from which Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian later developed, instead proposing that these languages emerged independently from one another. Early life Yuri Schneider was born in Kharkiv, then part of the Russian Empire (now Ukraine) in 1908. Some sources state his place of birth as Łomża, Łomża Governorate (then part of the Russian Empire, now Poland), although according to Shevelov, this is because his mother falsified records fearing persecution. His father, Vladimir Karlovich Schneider was a high ranking Russian Imperial Army officer who held the rank of major-general. His father and mother (Varvara Meder, who originally was of noble birth from an established M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volodymyr Tsybulko
Volodymyr Tsybulko () is a Ukrainian poet and politician. Biography Volodymyr was born on May 27, 1964, in Khmelna village of Cherkasy Oblast, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (in present-day Ukraine). He graduated from the Kyiv University and the Latvian State University majoring in philology. Tsybulko is an author of a dozen books of poetry in Ukrainian, as well as in Belarusian and English languages: "Key" (1988), "Tail of a lizard" (1991), "Pyramid" (1992), "Angels and texts" (1996), "Angel of resistance" (1997, in Belarusian), "Majn Kajf" (2000), "Angels in a Pyramid" (2002, in Ukrainian and English), "Selected, pulled, winning, washed..." (2003), "A book of warnings" (2003), etc. For a long time, Tsybulko was an advisor to the third president of Ukraine Viktor Yuschenko. He was elected to the Ukrainian parliament The Verkhovna Rada ( ; VR), officially the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, is the unicameral parliament of Ukraine. It consists of 450 deputies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Malkovych
Ivan Antonovych Malkovych (; born 10 May 1961 in Nyzhnii Bereziv, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk) is a noted Ukrainians, Ukrainian poet and publisher. He is the proprietor of the publishing house "A-ba-ba-ha-la-ma-ha, A-BA-BA-HA-LA-MA-HA", which specializes in high quality (often illustrated) editions of Ukrainian literature and poetry, and has been a winner of many industry awards. Laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize in 2016. Biography He completed his studies as a violinist at the Music college in Ivano-Frankivsk before entering Kyiv University in 1978, where he majored in Ukrainian philology. He was noted by poet Dmytro Pavlychko who took him under his wing. Malkovych was closely associated with the first Canadian-Ukrainian joint venture known as Kobza and was involved in the setting up of the Chervona Ruta (festival), Chervona Ruta festival of contemporary Music held in Chernivtsi in 1989. Career Malkovych published 6 collections of his own verse: * "White Ston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Bakhtin
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (; rus, Михаи́л Миха́йлович Бахти́н, , mʲɪxɐˈil mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ bɐxˈtʲin; – 7 March 1975) was a Russian people, Russian philosopher and literary critic who worked on the philosophy of language, ethics, and literary theory. His writings, on a variety of subjects, inspired scholars working in a number of different traditions (Marxism, semiotics, structuralism, religious criticism) and in disciplines as diverse as literary criticism, history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and psychology. Although Bakhtin was active in the debates on aesthetics and literature that took place in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, his distinctive position did not become well known until he was rediscovered by Russian scholars in the 1960s. Early life Bakhtin was born in Oryol, Russian Empire, Russia, to an old family of the nobility. His father was the manager of a bank and worked in several cities. For this reason Bakhtin spen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bohemian Style
The Bohemian style, often termed 'Boho chic', is a fashion and lifestyle choice characterized by its unconventional and free-spirited essence. While its precise origins are debated, Bohemian style is believed to have been influenced by the nomadic lifestyle of the Romani people during the late 19th century to the early 20th century. The term 'Bohemian' itself derives from the French 'Bohémien,' originally associated with the Roma community due to a historical misconception that they originated from Bohemia, a region in the Czech Republic. Throughout history, Bohemian fashion has undergone significant transformations, reflecting the cultural shifts and influences of each era. Today, contemporary Bohemian fashion embraces flowing fabrics, vibrant colors, and natural, woven materials instead of knits. This style draws inspiration from various sources, including the counterculture movements of the 1960s and 1970s, reminiscent of the attire worn by attendees of the inaugural W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyiv National Academic Molodyy Theatre
The Kyiv National Academic Molodyy Theatre () is a theatre in Kyiv, Ukraine. It was founded in 1979 and first played on 26 April 1980, with a focus on progressive productions. It is also known simply as Molodyy Theatre (Young Theatre). It is a member of the European Theatre Convention, and became a national institution in 2019. History A first Molodyi Theatr (Young Theatre) was founded in Kyiv in 1917 by Les Kurbas, an innovative Ukrainian director, actor and playwright. He wanted to connect new Ukrainian theatre to international theatre. It was closed by the government after two years. The present theatre was founded on 14 December 1979, when the first meeting of the theater troupe took place. It was then named Molodijniy Theatre. The first stage director was Alexander Zabolotnyi. The first performance was held on 26 April 1980, playing ''... I will come back to you with spring!''. The first performances showed the troupe's characteristics: unusual artistic style of theatrical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
