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Amplifying Ukrainian Voices in the English-Speaking Literary Environment

Room 2102A, Kansas City Convention Center, Street Level
Friday, February 9, 2024
9:00 am to 10:15 am

 

Russia's war against Ukraine brought a realization that the global literary community had limited knowledge of Ukrainian literature past and present, and also a keen interest to learn more. Obscured by centuries of imperial discrimination and entrenched prejudicial stereotypes, Ukrainian literary voices are finally beginning to be heard. Leading translators from Ukrainian into English reflect on their efforts and challenges they face.



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: AWP_2024_Event_Outline.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Grace Mahoney is the series editor of the Lost Horse Press Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series. She is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. She translates literature from Ukrainian and Russian.

Ostap Kin is the editor of Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond and New York Elegies: Ukrainian Poems on the City. He has translated, with John Hennessy, Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond and Serhiy Zhadan’s A New Orthography and, with Vitaly Chernetsky, Yuri Andrukhovych's Songs for a Dead Rooster.

Olena Jennings is author of the poetry collection The Age of Secrets and the novel Temporary Shelter. Her translation with Oksana Lutsyshyna of Kateryna Kalytko's poetry from Ukrainian and her translation of Vasyl Makhno's poetry were recently published. She is founder and curator of Poets of Queens.

Oksana Maksymchuk is a bilingual Ukrainian American poet, scholar, and literary translator. In the Ukrainian, she is the author of two award-winning poetry collections, Xenia and Lovy. A 2019 NEA Translation Fellow, she was recently a writer in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study at CEU.

Oksana Lutsyshyna is a Ukrainian writer, translator, and poet. For her novel, Ivan and Phoebe, she was awarded the Lviv City of Literature UNESCO Prize (2020) and the Taras Shevchenko National Award in fiction (2021). She holds a PhD in comparative literature, and teaches Eastern European literatures.

#AWP24

February 7–10, 2024
Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City Convention Center