Mykola Ryabchuk
Mykola Jurijowytsch Rjabtschuk ( Ukrainian Микола Юрійович Рябчук ; born September 27, 1953 in Lutsk , Ukraine ) is a Ukrainian writer and journalist . He co-founded the Kiev monthly magazine Krytyka and is a political commentator for the country. Ryabchuk lives in Kiev.
Ryabchuk was born in Lutsk in western Ukraine in 1953 and initially studied engineering in Lviv , where he was excluded in 1973 due to his involvement in an unauthorized publication. After completing his studies, he worked a. a. as a railway worker, theater electronics technician and shipper of printed products.
From 1985 he studied at the Department of the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow, where he graduated in 1988. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, his poems and short stories, which had been banned for decades, were made available to the general public for the first time. In 1989 his first and only book of poems "Winter in Lviv", a selection from the years 1971 to 1988, was published.
From 1985 to 1994 Ryabchuk was the editor of the monthly foreign literature Vzeswit , later he worked for the intellectual monthly journal Krytyka for five years . He has been President of the Ukrainian PEN Club since September 2016. In this function, he worked with his deputy Andrei Kurkow to ensure that the 83rd PEN Congress will take place in Ukraine.
Ryabchuk received a number of prestigious awards, including the "Book of the Year Award" in 2000 and 2003, the POLCUL Award in 1998, the Polish-Ukrainian City Prize in 2002 for his efforts to promote Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation and the Antonovych Prize in 2003 for his unparalleled commitment to human rights in Ukraine.
Since 2014 he has been the jury chairman of the Central European Angelus Literature Prize .
Works
- Real and Imagined Ukraine , Essay, Translated from the Ukrainian by Juri Durkot . With an afterword by Wilfried Jilge , edition suhrkamp 2005, ISBN 978-3-518-12418-5 . New edition Berlin, Suhrkamp, 2016, ISBN 978-3-518-12704-9 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Mykola Rjabtschuk in the catalog of the German National Library
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ryabchuk, Mykola |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Рябчук, Микола Юрійович (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian writer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lutsk |