Maria Matios
Maria Matios is a contemporary Ukrainian writer. Winner of the “Book of the Year 2004” and of the Taras Shevchenko National Award in 2005 (for her novel Sweet Darusia). Maria Matios bases her books on the unique experiences of her family, whose roots go back as far as 1790. She was born in the village of Roztoky in the Bukovyna region. Presently she resides in Kyiv.
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Claire McFall
Claire McFall's work is, in essence, all about first love and difficult decisions. Her novels take straightforward romantic narratives and hurl them into unusual and extreme settings, blurring accepted genre boundaries and creating new sub-genres of her own. She then charts her characters' reactions to these unfamiliar situations and the new and confusing feelings that beset them in a hyper-real, engaging, deeply poignant and literary manner. Claire is a former teacher from Scotland who now lives in sunny Colorado with her husband, two children, and pooch, Jazz.
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Daniel Keyes
Daniel Keyes was an American author best known for his Hugo award-winning short story and Nebula award-winning novel Flowers for Algernon. Keyes was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2000.
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Keyes was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York. At age 17, he joined the U.S. Maritime Service as ship's purser. He obtained a B.A. in psychology from Brooklyn College, and after a stint in fashion photography (partner in a photography studio), earned a Master's Degree in English and American Literature at night while teaching English in New York City public schools during the day and writing weekends.
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Oksana Zabuzhko
Oksana Zabuzhko is a contemporary Ukrainian writer, poet and essayist.
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Born in Lutsk, Ukraine, Zabuzhko studied philosophy at the Kyiv University, where she also obtained her doctorate in aesthetics in 1987. In 1992 she taught at Penn State University as a visiting writer. Zabuzhko won a Fulbright scholarship in 1994 and taught Ukrainian literature at Harvard and University of Pittsburgh. Currently Zabuzhko works at the Hryhori Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Zabuzhko is known both for her literary works and criticism. Her controversial bestselling novel Field Work in Ukrainian Sex was translated in eight languages. In her writing Zabuzhko draws a lot of attention to the questions of Ukrainia -
Oksana Zabuzhko
Oksana Zabuzhko is a contemporary Ukrainian writer, poet and essayist.
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Born in Lutsk, Ukraine, Zabuzhko studied philosophy at the Kyiv University, where she also obtained her doctorate in aesthetics in 1987. In 1992 she taught at Penn State University as a visiting writer. Zabuzhko won a Fulbright scholarship in 1994 and taught Ukrainian literature at Harvard and University of Pittsburgh. Currently Zabuzhko works at the Hryhori Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Zabuzhko is known both for her literary works and criticism. Her controversial bestselling novel Field Work in Ukrainian Sex was translated in eight languages. In her writing Zabuzhko draws a lot of attention to the questions of Ukrainia -
Sofia Andrukhovych
See also Софія Андрухович
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Sofia Andrukhovych (* 17 November 1982) in Ivano-Frankivsk) is a contemporary Ukrainian writer and translator. She is the daughter of another Ukrainian writer Yuri Andrukhovych. -
Yuri Vynnychuk
Yuri Vynnychuk (sometimes spelled as Yuriy Vynnychuk, Yuryy Vynnychuk, Iurii Vynnychuk, Yurii Vynnychuk, Jurij Wynnytschuk, Jurij Wynnyczuk, Jurij Vіnіčuk, Youri Vinitchouk) is a contemporary Ukrainian writer.
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Taras Prokhasko
Taras Prokhasko studied Biology at Lviv University. He has worked as a radio operator, an editor, a bartender, the host of a radio program, a forester, a teacher, a gallery proprietor, a screen writer, a video operator and a gardener. For the past ten years he has worked as a journalist. He is the author of Inshi dni Anny (Anna's Other Days, 1998), FM Halychyna (FM Galicia, 2001), Neprosti (The UnSimple, 2002), Leksykon tayemnykh znan (Lexicon of Secretive Knowledge, 2005), Z tsyoho mozhna bulo b zrobyty kilka opovidan (Could Have Made a Couple of Stories from This, 2005), and Port Frankivsk (2006). He has also published a number of books in his Inshiy Format series featuring interviews he conducted with leading Ukrainian intellectuals. Sev
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Valerian Pidmohylny
Writer and translator. He graduated from high school in Katerynoslav in 1918 and then continued his studies at Kyiv University. In 1921 he began working with various publishing houses and joined the editorial board of Zhyttia i revoliutsiia. The first of his short stories to be published were ‘Vania’ and ‘Haidamaky’ (Haidamakas), which appeared in 1919 in Sich, a journal in Katerynoslav. He also contributed to the almanac Vyr revoliutsiï (1921). He was a member of the literary organization Lanka. His published collections of stories include Tvory (Works, vol 1, 1920), V epidemichnomu baratsi (In the Quarantine Ward, 1922), Povstantsi i ynshi opovidannia (The Insurgents and Other Stories, 1923), Viis’kovyi litun (Army Pilot, 1924), and Probl
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Ivan Bahrianyi
See also Іван Багряний
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Poet, writer, and publicist Ivan Bahrianyi was lucky – twice he managed to leave the Soviet camps alive. Later, he was able to leave the USSR. In his homeland, his name was erased from memory for a long time. Only with the restoration of Ukraine’s independence Ivan Bahrianyi was able to return symbolically — he was rehabilitated in 1991, and his creative legacy finally began to be published and studied.
Ivan Lozoviahin — Bahrianyi’s real surname — was born in Okhtyrka, the Slobozhanshchyna region.
“I was still a little 10-year-old boy when the Bolsheviks invaded my consciousness with a bloody nightmare, acting as the executioners of my people, and it was 1920. He lived then with his grandfather in the village, at the api -
Tamara Duda
Ukrainian pen name is Горіха Зерня.
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Tamara Horikha Zernya (Tamara Duda) was born and raised in Kyiv. A poetry and prose author as well as a songwriter, she holds a degree in journalism from Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. Daughter is her debut novel and has received favourable reviews from both literary critics and well-established Ukrainian writers. With the outbreak of war in Eastern Ukraine, Tamara took a leave of absence from her career to serve as a volunteer at the front. In 2014 and 2015, she and her husband raised funds for, purchased, and delivered equipment and aid to Ukrainian soldiers to the front. -
Michel Pastoureau
Pastoureau was born in Paris on 17 June 1947. He studied at the École Nationale des Chartes, a college for prospective archivists and librarians. After writing his 1972 thesis about heraldic bestiaries in the Middle Ages, he worked in the coins, medals and antiquities department of the French National Library until 1982.
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Since 1983 he has held the Chair of History of Western Symbolism (Chaire d'histoire de la symbolique occidentale) and is a director of studies at the Sorbonne's École pratique des hautes études. He is an academician of the Académie internationale d'héraldique (International Academy of Heraldry) and vice-president of the Société française d'héraldique (French Heraldry Society). When he received an honorary doctorate from the -
Oles Honchar
Ukrainian Soviet writer and public figure. He also was a veteran of World War II and member of the Ukrainian parliament.
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Олесь (Олександр) Терентійович Гончар народився 3 квітня 1918 року в селі Суха, тепер Кобеляцького району Полтавської області. Після закінчення школи вступив до Харківського технікуму журналістики. З 1937 року О. Гончар почав друкуватися в українській пресі. 1938 року він вступив на філологічний факультет Харківського університету.
У перші дні війни пішов добровольцем на фронт у складі студентського батальйону. Брав участь у багатьох боях. Був двічі поранений. Улітку 1942 року в районі Бєлгорода, будучи контуженим, потрапив у полон — Харківський, потім Полтавський табір військовополонених. Звідти з партією військовополонени -
Sofia Andrukhovych
See also Софія Андрухович
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Sofia Andrukhovych (* 17 November 1982) in Ivano-Frankivsk) is a contemporary Ukrainian writer and translator. She is the daughter of another Ukrainian writer Yuri Andrukhovych. -
Yuri Vynnychuk
Yuri Vynnychuk (sometimes spelled as Yuriy Vynnychuk, Yuryy Vynnychuk, Iurii Vynnychuk, Yurii Vynnychuk, Jurij Wynnytschuk, Jurij Wynnyczuk, Jurij Vіnіčuk, Youri Vinitchouk) is a contemporary Ukrainian writer.
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Vsevolod Nestaiko
Vsevolod Zinoviiovych Nestaiko or Nestayko (Ukrainian: Всеволод Нестайко) is considered Ukraine's best-known and best loved children's literature writer. He wrote and published stories, fairy tales, novels and plays over many years, and his books have been translated into twenty languages around the world, including English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Bengali, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, and Slovak. Nestayko's works are included in school curricula in Ukraine.
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Tamara Duda
Ukrainian pen name is Горіха Зерня.
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Tamara Horikha Zernya (Tamara Duda) was born and raised in Kyiv. A poetry and prose author as well as a songwriter, she holds a degree in journalism from Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. Daughter is her debut novel and has received favourable reviews from both literary critics and well-established Ukrainian writers. With the outbreak of war in Eastern Ukraine, Tamara took a leave of absence from her career to serve as a volunteer at the front. In 2014 and 2015, she and her husband raised funds for, purchased, and delivered equipment and aid to Ukrainian soldiers to the front. -
Lesia Ukrainka
Lesya Ukrainka (born Larysa Petrivna Kosach-Kvitka (February 25, 1871 – August 1, 1913) is one of is one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays. She also was an active political, civil, and feminist activist
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Among her most well-know works are poems collections «On the wings of songs» (1893), «Thoughts and Dreams» (1899), «Echos» (1902), epic poem «Ancient fairy tale» (1893), «One word» (1903), plays «Princess» (1913), «Cassandra» (1903—1907), «In the Catacombs» (1905), «Forest song» (1911).
Леся Українка (справжнє ім'я Лариса Петрівна Косач-Квітка 13 лютого 1871, — 19 липня 1913) - українська письменниця, перекладач, культурний діяч. Писала у найрізноманітніших жанрах: поезії, ліриці, епосі, драмі, проз -
Tanja Maljartschuk
Tania Maliarchuk began with several volumes of short stories and novellas: Adolfo's Endspiel, or A Rose for Liza (2004), From Top to Bottom: A Book of Fears (2006), How I Became a Saint (2006), To Speak (2007), and Zviroslov (2009). Her first novel, Biography of an Accidental Miracle, was published in 2012.
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Maliarchuk has been writing in German since 2014. In 2018 she won the Ingeborg Bachmann Award for Frösche im Meer (Frogs in the Sea), an unpublished text she read at the Festival of German-Language Literature.
Her Ukrainian work has been translated into German since 2009 (Neunprozentiger Haushaltsessing, Biografie eines zufälligen Wunders, both by Residenz Verlag). Some has also been translated into English.[2][3] The short story "Me and M -
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Lina Kostenko
Укр: Ліна Костенко
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Kostenko was born in a family of teachers. In 1936, she moved from Rzhyshchiv to Kiev, where she finished her secondary education.
Lina graduated with distinction from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow in 1956. Following her graduation she published three collections of poetry in 1957, 1958, and 1961. These books became immensely popular among her Ukrainian readers, however they also forced her into publication silence as she was unwilling to submit to Soviet authorities.
It wasn't until 1977 (16 years later) that her next major collection was published. She followed this with several more collections and a children's book called The Lilac King. In 1979 she followed with one of her greatest works the historical -
Irena Karpa
Irena Karpa (Ірена Карпа) graduated from the Kyiv National Linguistic University, majoring in English and French. Since 1997 she has been the front woman of the Qarpa band, specializing in a fusion of industrial music, punk-rock, hardcore and psychedelic trip-hop. Her first novel Znes Palionogo was published in 2000. After a long trip to the Southern Asia, she published another novel Freud would weep which was nominated for a prestigious prize. Since 2005 Irena has been working as a host at several major Ukrainian TV-channels and acting as a model for Playboy and Penthouse.
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Irena Karpa was named the WRITER OF THE YEAR-2005. Freud would cry was the finalist of Book of the Year award of the BBC Ukraine. -
Kuzma Skryabin
український співак, письменник, телеведучий, продюсер, актор. Лідер гурту «Скрябін».
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Oksana Lutsyshyna
See also Ukrainian spelling; Оксана Луцишина
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Oksana Lutsyshyna (née Kishko; born 10 October 1974) is a Ukrainian poet, professor and writer who is a recipient of the Shevchenko National Prize, and member of PEN Ukraine. She primarily writes poetry and fiction in Ukrainian, with additional work on blogs for the feminist website Povaha.