Oksana Zabuzhko
Oksana Zabuzhko is a contemporary Ukrainian writer, poet and essayist.
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
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Austrian writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name.
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During his lifetime, Sacher-Masoch was well known as a man of letters, a utopian thinker who espoused socialist and humanist ideals in his fiction and non-fiction. Most of his works remain untranslated into English. The novel Venus in Furs is his only book commonly available in English.
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Heinrich Böll
Der deutsche Schriftsteller und Übersetzer gilt als einer der bedeutendsten deutschen Autoren der Nachkriegszeit. Er schrieb Gedichte, Kurzgeschichten und Romane, von denen auch einige verfilmt wurden. Dabei setzte er sich kritisch mit der jungen Bundesrepublik auseinander. Zu seinen erfolgreichsten Werken zählen "Billard um halbzehn", "Ansichten eines Clowns" und "Gruppenbild mit Dame". Den Nobelpreis für Literatur bekam Heinrich Böll 1972; er war nach 43 Jahren der erste deutsche Schriftsteller, dem diese Auszeichnung zuteil wurde. 1974 erschien sein wohl populärstes Werk, "Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum". Durch sein politisches Engagement wirkte er, gemeinsam mit seinem Freund Lew Kopelew, auf die europäische Literatur der Nachkri
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D.B.C. Pierre
DBC Pierre is an Australian-born writer currently residing in Ireland. Born Peter Warren Finlay, the "DBC" stands for "Dirty But Clean". "Pierre" was a nickname bestowed on him by childhood friends after a cartoon character of that name.
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Viktor Suvorov
Former Soviet-Union army officer fled in 1978 to England. Where he worked as a teacher and a adviser for news agencies.
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Author of a number of bestsellers about the history of the World War II, the Soviet Army special operations troops and military intelligence, and the Red Army.
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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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George Y. Shevelov
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Marina and Serhiy Dyachenko - co-authors of novels, short fiction, plays and scripts. They primarily write in Russian (and in the past also in Ukrainian) with several novels translated into English and published in the United States. These include, Vita Nostra (2012), The Scar (2012), The Burned Tower (2012), Age of Witches (2014) and Daughter from the dark (2020). The primary genres of their books are modern speculative fiction, fantasy, and literary tales. -
E.T.A. Hoffmann
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Sigitas Parulskis
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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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Sofia Andrukhovych
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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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Maik Yohansen
Maik (Mykhailo) Hervasiiovych Yohansen or Mike Johansen (Ukrainian: Майк Гервасійович Йогансен; pseudonyms Villi Vetselius [Willy Wetzelius] and M. Kramar; 16 October 1895, Kharkiv, Ukraine – 27 October 1937, Kyiv, Ukraine) – was a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and linguist.
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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. -
Ewa M. Thompson
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Maria Matios
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Markiyan Kamysh
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Markiyan Kamysh (1988) is representing the Chernobyl underground in literature. Since 2010, he has been illegally investigating the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. He has made a lot of expeditions behind the barbed wire and illegally lived in the Zone. -
Marci Shore
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Maksym Eristavi
Maksym Eristavi is a Ukrainian journalist, writer, and author of award-winning “Russian Colonialism 101,” an illustrated guide to Russian colonial crimes. A self-described 'Russian colonialism storyteller in chief,' he champions global awareness about the Russian colonial legacy. This mission is personal: a mixed Ukrainian with Asian, Roma, and Georgian roots, several generations of his family suffered from genocides, assimilation, and identity erasure throughout centuries of Russian colonial rule.
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Sofia Andrukhovych
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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 Andrukhovych
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UKR Юрій Андрухович
BLG/RU Юрий Андрухович
Yuri Andrukhovych (13 March 1960, Ivano-Frankivsk) — is a contemporary Ukrainian writer, essayist, poet, translator and public figure. Among his most notable works are novels Рекреації (Recreations, 1992), The Moscoviad, (Московіада, 1993), Perverzion (Перверзія, 1996), Twelve circles (Дванадцять обручів, 2003), The Secret (Таємниця, 2003), and Justicia's lovers (Коханці юстиції, 2017).
Andrukhovych's biggest literary awards include:
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Maik Yohansen
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Yaroslav Hrytsak
Yaroslav Hrytsak is a leading Ukrainian historian and public intellectual. He is the author of numerous publications in modern history of Eastern Europe. He has taught at Columbia University, Harvard University, and the Central European University (Budapest), and has been awarded various Ukrainian and foreign awards for academic achievements and public endeavors.
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Народився 1 січня 1960 р. у с. Довге, Стрийського району Львівській області. Доктор історичних наук з 1996 р. Професор Львівського університету ім. І. Франка. Директор Інституту історичних досліджень Львівського державного університету ім. І. Франка, гість-професор Центрально-європейського Інституту в Будапешті, Сенатор і завідувач кафедрою історії України Українського Католицького -
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Dmytro Kuleba
a Ukrainian politician and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs (2020 - 2024).
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Darren Byler
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Lesia Ukrainka
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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 -
Lina Kostenko
Укр: Ліна Костенко
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Manfred Lütz
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Teffi
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Manuela Gretkowska
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Meelis Friedenthal
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Juhan Smuul
Juhan Smuul was born on the 18th February in 1922 on the island of Muhu as his father’s 19th child. He was supposed to be the heir of the farm and a farmer, but instead he became a sea writer, publicist and a active member of society. He died on the 13th of April in 1971 in Tallinn.
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Juhan Smuul studied at the period from 1930 to 1936 in the Piiri elementary school, afterwards he studied for a short period of time in Järvamaa Jäneda agricultural school. He quit his studies when he got a cold and ended up with a glands infection to a clinic in Tartu. That ended his official education period.
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Ilmārs Šlāpins
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Kopš 1984. gada nodarbojies ar diskotēku un koncertu organizēšanu; vada raidījumu Zaļais karogs radio NABA ēterā, kā arī raidījumu Rīgas Laiks klausās radio Klasika.
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Gunstein Bakke
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Pāvils Rozītis
Pāvils Rozītis (1889–1937) – rakstnieks, dzejnieks, žurnālists, tulkotājs, literāri publicistisku rakstu autors un literatūrkritiķis. Psiholoģiskās prozas tradīciju veidotājs latviešu literatūrā. Izkopis satīras un anekdotiskās noveles žanru, uzskatāms par 20. gadsimta 20. un 30. gadu latviešu anekdotiskās noveles spilgtāko pārstāvi. Sarakstījis 4 romānus, no tiem ievērojamākie ir 1928. gadā iznākušais romāns "Ceplis" un 1936. gadā publicētais darbs "Valmieras puikas". Romāns "Zemes prieks" (1937) nepabeigts. Vairāku dzejoļu, īsprozas un eseju krājumu autors. Rakstījis esejas par Kārli Skalbi, Jāni Akurateru, Jāni Jaunsudrabiņu, Viktoru Eglīti u.c., kas apkopotas 1920. gadā iznākušajā krājumā "Kultūras slāpes". Publicējis teātra recenzijas,
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