Event: My Final Territory

Thursday, November 15th at 7pm

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My Final Territory: 

An Evening With Writer Yuri Andrukhovych

Please join us for a reading with Ukrainian writer Yuri Andrukhovych.

Yuri Andrukhovych will be reading from his latest English-language publication My Final Territory, a collection of philosophical, autobiographical, political, and literary essays. My Final Territory showcases Mr. Andrukhovych’s unique voice and provides insight into the Ukrainian experience of nationality and identity. One of the book’s translators, Mark Andryczyk, will also participate in the event.

Light refreshments served!

BYOB

Co-Sponsored by The Ukrainian Community Foundation and The ULP Cultural Trust

Event: The White Chalk Of Days Book Release & Reading

Friday, March 16th at 7PM

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The White Chalk Of Days Book Release & Reading

Please join Columbia University's Mark Andryczyk, present the release of The White Chalk of Days: The Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Anthology (Academic Studies Press, 2017).

The anthology presents translations of literary works that imaginatively engage pivotal issues in today’s Ukraine and express its tribulations and jubilations.

Featuring poetry, fiction, and essays by fifteen Ukrainian writers, the anthology offers English-language readers a wide array of the most beguiling literature written in Ukraine in the past fifty years.

 

Event: Smuggling Ukraine Westward, with Andriy Lyubka

SUNDAY, OCT 15th at 5PM

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SMUGGLING UKRAINE WESTWARD, WITH ANDRIY LYUBKA

Andriy Lyubka was born in 1987 in Riga, Latvia. He completed degrees in Ukrainian Philology at Uzhhorod University (2009) and in Balkan Studies at the University of Warsaw (2014). He is the author of three books of poetry – Eight Months of Schizophrenia (2007), TERRORISM (2008), and Forty Bucks Plus Tip (2009) - and four books of prose – KILLER: A Collection of Stories (2012), Sleeping with Women (2014), Carbide (2015), A Room for Sorrow (2016) and Saudade (2017). His writings have been translated into Polish, Chinese, English, Portuguese, Russian, Czech, Serbian, Macedonian, Slovak, Lithuanian, Romanian, Turkish and German. Mr. Lyubka also works as a translator, having published several translations from Polish, Serbian and English into Ukrainian. He is a columnist for Radio Liberty, Den and Zbruch. Mr. Lyubka has been a curator for the literary festivals Kyivski Lavry and Meridian Czernowitz and has been writer-in-residence at cultural institutes in Poland, Latvia, Romania, Hungary, Sweden and Austria. He lives in Uzhhorod.

This event is free and open to the public.

For more information please contact Dr. Mark Andryczyk at 212-854-4697 or at marcos17@yahoo.com

Event: Lyuba Yakimchuk

This Saturday, Oct 29th

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Lyuba Yakimchuk

(Ukraine, author of Apricots of Donbas)

Lyuba Yakimchuk, a Ukrainian poet, screenwriter and journalist, was born in Pervomaisk, Luhansk oblast, Ukraine. She is the author of several full-length poetry collections, including Like FASHION and Apricots of Donbas, and the film script for The Building of the Word.

Ms. Yakimchuk has received many literary awards, including the International Slavic Poetic Award, the Bohdan-Ihor Antonych Prize and the Smoloskyp Prize, three of Ukraine’s most prestigious awards for young poets. She is the winner of the International Literary Contest "Coronation of the Word". Her poems have appeared in journals in Ukraine, USA, Sweden, Germany, Poland, Israel, Lithuania, and Belarus. Her poems have been translated into English, Swedish, German, French, Polish, Hebrew, Slovak, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Belarusian and Russian, and her essays into English and Swedish.

She performs in a musical and poetic duet with the Ukrainian double bass player Mark Tokar; their projects include Apricots of Donbas and Women, Smoke, and Dangerous Things. Her poetry has been performed by the singer Mariana Sadovska (Cologne) and improvised by vocalist Olesya Zdorovetska (Dublin).

Lyuba Yakimchuk also works as a cultural manager. She organized the "Semenko Year" project (2012) dedicated to the Ukrainian futurist writer Mykahil’ Semenko, and was curator for the literary programs Cultural Forum "Donkult" (2015, Lviv) and Cultural Forum “GaliciaKult” (2016, Kharkiv).

She lives in Kyiv. 

Readings will be in both Ukrainian and English.

Related Links:

http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/contributor/lyuba-yakimchuk

http://harriman.columbia.edu/event/contemporary-ukrainian-literature-series-decomposition-lyuba-yakimchuk

http://starylev.com.ua/abrykosy-donbasu

https://abrykosy-donbasu.bandcamp.com/