Ukrainian Literature A Journal of Translations

Volume 1. 2004

About the Authors

Emma Andijewska (Emma Andiievs'ka) was born in Donetsk, Ukraine in 1931. She lives in Munich, Germany.

Borys Antonenko-Davydovych was born in 1899. He died in Kyiv in 1984. He spent twenty years in the Soviet Gulag.

Spyrydon Cherkasenko was born in 1876. He died in Prague in 1940.

Volodymyr Dibrova was born in Donetsk, Ukraine, in 1951. He lives in Massachussets.

Vasyl Gabor was born in 1959 and lives in Lviv.

Oleksander Irvanets was born in Lviv in 1961. He now lives near Kyiv.

Ievheniia Kononenko was born in 1959. She lives in Kyiv.

Leonid Mosendz was born in 1897. After 1921 he lived outside Ukraine. He died in 1948 in Switzerland.

Yuri Pokalchuk (Iurii Pokal'chuk) was born in 1941. He lives in Lviv.

Taras Shevchenko (1814–1861) is the most respected poet in Ukrainian literature.

Valerii Shevchuk was born in 1939 in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. He now lives in Kyiv.

Pavlo Tychyna was born in 1891. He was among the most celebrated writers in Soviet Ukraine. He died in 1967.

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