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List Of Ukrainian Literature Translated Into English ...
This is a list of Ukrainian literature that has been translated into English. ''This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.'' See also * Contemporary Ukrainian literature References {{reflist Ukrainian literature Ukrainian literature Ukraine-related lists Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * Som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serhiy Zhadan
Serhiy Viktorovych Zhadan ( uk, Сергі́й Ві́кторович Жада́н; born 23 August 1974 in Starobilsk, Luhansk oblast, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, essayist, musician, translator, and social activist. Life and career Zhadan was born in Starobilsk, Luhansk Oblast in Ukraine. He graduated from H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University in 1996 with a thesis on the work of Mykhaylo Semenko and the Ukrainian Futurist writers of the 1920s. He then spent three years as a graduate student of philology, and taught Ukrainian and world literature from 2000 to 2004. Since then he has worked as a freelance writer. Starting his career in 1990, his verses revolutionized Ukrainian poetry: they were less sentimental, reviving the style of 1920s Ukrainian avant-garde writers like Semenko or Johanssen. And they drew upon his homeland: the industrial landscapes of East Ukraine. ''Voroshilovgrad'' (the Soviet name for Luhansk) tells a story of a young man cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Matios
Maria Matios ( uk, Марія Матіос; born on 19 December 1959) is a Ukrainian poet, novelist and official. She won the "Book of the Year 2004" prize and the Taras Shevchenko National Award. Biography She was born in the village of Roztoky in the Bukovina region, and presently resides in Kyiv. She has authored 12 volumes of fiction and poetry, including the novel ''Sweet Darusia'' (2003), and the collections of stories titled ''The Short Life'' (2001) and ''Nation'' (2002). She has also published ''Banquet at Maria Matios, the first cookery book written by a contemporary Ukrainian writer, as well as the controversial ''Boulevard Novel''. Her interests include psychology, ethnography, gardening and flower-growing. Her prose works have been translated into Russian, Polish, English, Serbian, Belarusian (''...Hardly Ever Otherwise''). Her first poems were published when she was fifteen years old. In 1992 she published her first prose writing in Kyiv Magazine. Maria Matios base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Life Born in Pisky in 1891, he was baptized on January 27, which was mistakenly considered his birth date until recently. His father, Hryhoriy Timofiyovych Tychynin, was a village deacon and a teacher in the local grammar school. His mother, Maria Vasylivna Tychynina (Savytska), was eleven years younger than Pavlo's father. Pavlo had nine siblings: five sisters and four brothers. At first young Tychyna studied at the district's elementary school which was opened in Pisky in 1897. His first teacher was Serafima Morachevska who later recommended him to try his talent in chorus. In 1900 he became a member of an archiary chorus in the Trinity (Troitsky) monastery near Chernihiv. Simultaneously young Tychyna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borys Antonenko-Davydovych
Borys Antonenko-Davydovych ( uk, Борис Антоненко-Давидович), born Borys Davydov ( uk, Борис Давидов) was a Ukrainian writer, translator and linguist. During the Great Purge The Great Purge or the Great Terror (russian: Большой террор), also known as the Year of '37 (russian: 37-й год, translit=Tridtsat sedmoi god, label=none) and the Yezhovshchina ('period of Yezhov'), was Soviet General Secreta ... he was sentenced to the death penalty, which was later replaced with ten years jail in a gulag. Antonenko-Davydovych wrote a number of prose books; he had been translating from German and Russian. One of the most famous of his works is "How do we speak" ''(Як ми говоримо)'' in which typical mistakes of Ukrainian speakers made under the influence of Russian language are considered. Sources * Юрій Лавріненко. Розстріляне відродження: Антологія 1917–1933. — Київ: С ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuriy Vynnychuk
Yuriy Pavlovych Vynnychuk ( uk, Юрій Павлович Винничук; born 18 March 1952) is a Ukrainian journalist, writer and editor. Biography Educated in the Vasyl Stefanyk Subcarpathian National University (formerly Ivano-Frankivsk Pedagogical Institute), Faculty of Philology (1969–1973 years), a teacher of Ukrainian language and literature. In 1974 he moved to the city and worked as a loader, graphic designers. 1987–1991 — director of Lviv Theatre of Variety "Do not worry!". He was the author of the script for the play "Do not worry!" and song lyrics. In 1990 he had to leave the theater and together with Stefka Orobets created "Cabarete Yurtsya and Steftsya". 1991–1994 — editor of mysticism and sensational newspaper "Post-Postup". 1995–1998 — chief editor of "Gulvіsa", Lviv. 1998–1999 — editor of the newspaper "Postup". Since 2006 — chief editor of " Post-Postup" (restored). Member of the Association of Ukrainian Writers (1997). Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artem Chekh
Artem Chekh (born Artem Oleksandrovych Cherednyk on June 13, 1985) is a Ukrainian writer and journalist. As a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine he took part in the War in Donbas and the following Russian invasion of Ukraine. Biography As a child, Artem Cherednyk made a trip to Prague, and since he returned with enthusiasm, Artem's classmates called him "Chekh". In 1997 he graduated from the music school (piano, guitar, flute). For eight years he played in the Cherkasy Drama Theater, studied choreography, choral chanting. In 2002 he graduated from high school in the city of Cherkasy. From 2002 to 2007 he lived in Kyiv, studied at the National Academy of Government Managerial Staff of Culture and Arts of Ukraine at the Faculty of Sociology. Artem Chekh did not work in his specialty for a single day. In December 2008, he moved to live in the village of Mryn Chernihiv Oblast for three years, where he practiced downshifting. In 2012 he returned to Kyiv. From April 2015 – J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko
Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko ( ua, Григорій Квітка-Основ'яненко, 29 November 1778 – 20 August 1843) was a Ukraine, Ukrainian writer, journalist, and playwright. Founder of Ukrainian classicist prose. He was born in the vicinity of Kharkiv. Life and work Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko was born in 1778 in the village of Osnova, near the city of Kharkiv, to a family of Ukrainian nobility. He adopted the pen name "Osnovianenko," a reference to the village of his birth, when he embarked on his literary career. In 1812, G. F. Kvitka-Osnovianenko begins his social activities. He was appointed the director of a new regular lay theatre open in Kharkov. Kvitka-Osnovianenko carried his love to theatre through all his life. Later this feeling made him write theatre drama works. In 1841, he wrote his marvellously interesting "Kharkov Theatre History".kharkov.vbelous.net/english/famous/fam-art/kvitka.htm Kvitka-Osnovianenko was one of the earliest proponents of Ukrai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamara Duda
Tamara Anatoliyivna Duda (; born 5 January 1976), known in Ukraine by the pseudonym Tamara Horikha Zernya (), is a Ukrainian writer and translator. Having first become known for her Facebook page documenting her time as a volunteer in the Donbas during the early stages of the Russo-Ukrainian War, Duda has since gone on to become a novelist, with her debut novel ''Daughter'' (2019) winning the 2022 Shevchenko National Prize for Literature, among other accolades. Early life and education Duda was born in Kyiv in 1975. Her father was a physicist from Nedryhailiv, while her mother was a mathematics teacher from Sumy. In 1992, Duda graduated from the Ukrainian Humanities Lyceum; the following year, she started studying journalism at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, graduating in 1998. Between 2003 and 2005, Duda studied at Kyiv International University, after which she embarked on a career as a translator, primarily of economic texts from English to Ukrainian. Volu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianna Kiyanovska
Marianna Kiyanovska (born November 17, 1973, in Zhovkva) is a Ukrainian poet, translator and a literary scholar and is a recipient of the Shevchenko National Prize (2020) and the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award (2022) for the poetry book ''The Voices of Babyn Yar''. She is a member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine and the Ukrainian PEN. Early life and education Marianna Kiyanovska was born on November 17, 1973 in Zhovkva. She holds a degree in Ukrainian studies from the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. She co-created an all-female literary group called ММЮННА ТУГА, together with Natalka Sniadanko, Mariana Savka and others. Career She debuted in 1997 with poetry book ''Reincarnation''. Her works have appeared in various anthologies, almanacs and magazines, such as ''Svitovyd'', ''Suchasnist`'', ''Chetver'', ''Kuryer Kryvbasu'', ''Kalmius'', '' Literatura na Świecie'', ''Studium'', ''Akcent'' and ''Ukrainian Quarterly''. In 2011, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
