Borys Ten

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Borys Ten (1930)

Borys Ten ( Ukrainian Борис Тен , Russian Борис Тен Boris Ten ; born December 9, 1897 in Derman , Volyn Governorate , Russian Empire ; † March 13, 1983 in Zhytomyr , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian translator and poet.

Life

Borys Ten came to the world as Mykola Wassyljowytsch Chomytschewskyj ( Мико́ла Васи́льович Хомиче́вський ) as the son of a priestly family in the village of Derman ( Дермань ) in what is now Sdolbuniw Raion of the Ukrainian Oblast . He attended the local elementary school and the religious school in Klewan . At the beginning of the First World War he moved to Zhytomyr, where he initially worked in the statistics office, attended the theological seminar and graduated from the Faculty of Humanities at the Volyn Institute for Education in 1922 .

Grave of Borys Ten

Between 1919 and 1923 he taught Ukrainian at numerous schools in Zhytomyr. In 1923 he published his first work. From 1924 to 1926 he was pastor of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church at the St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev and then at the Peter and Paul Church in Kiev- Podil . At this time he also began his career as a poet and translator. When publishing Sjajwo ( Сяйво ) and Knyhospilka ( Книгоспілка ) he befriended Mykola Serov , Oleksandr Bilezkyj ( Олександр Іванович Білецький ; and 1884-1961) Maksym Rylskyj on. Because of his commitment to the Ukrainian autocephalous Orthodox Church in both Kiev and Zhytomyr, he was arrested in 1929 and sentenced to ten years Gulag in the Far East. For “honest work” the prison administration shortened the duration of the exile, so that from January 1937 he was able to work as literary director of the mobile theater in Kiev and a few months later until 1941 at the House of Folk Art in Kalinin . In the German-Soviet War he made from 1941 to 1945 as a soldier military service in the Red Army . At the front he became a German prisoner of war. After the war ended, he returned to Zhytomyr in 1945, where he worked in educational and cultural institutions and headed the regional literary association and the association of amateur composers, as well as the regional office of the State Theater. He died in Zhytomyr at the age of 85.

Monument to Borys Ten in Zhytomyr
Memorial plaque on his home

Honors

Since 1957 he was a member of the Writers' Union of Ukraine . He received the Maksym Rylskyj Prize in 1979 for his translations of the Odyssey and the Iliad . In Zhytomyr a bust was erected in his memory and a plaque was attached to his house.

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Borys Ten published a collection of sonnets in 1970 under the title Sorjani sady ( Зоряні сади ). His main output, however, was his translations of classical texts, including Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and the works of Aristophanes , Aeschylus and Aristotle . He also translated works by Shakespeare , Schiller , Mickiewicz and Pushkin and Tolstoy , which made him one of the leading translators of the mid and late 20th century and contributed significantly to the enrichment of Ukrainian cultural expression.

Web links

Commons : Borys Ten  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e article on Borys Ten on litakcent.com ; accessed on June 11, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b c d Borys Ten on lib.zt.ua ; accessed on June 11, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  3. ^ Entry on Ten, Borys in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on June 11, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Ten, Borys
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Тен, Борис (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian translator and poet
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Derman , Volyn Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1983
Place of death Zhytomyr , Ukrainian SSR