Natalka Bilozerkivets

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Natalka Bilozerkivets, 2007

Natalka Hennadijiwna Bilozerkiwez ( Ukrainian Ната́лка Генна́діївна Білоцеркі́вець ; born November 8, 1954 in Kujaniwka , Sumy Oblast , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian poet and translator.

Career

She was born in the village of Kujanivka ( Куянівка ) near Sumy and studied at the Taras Shevchenko National University in Kiev . She is married to the critic Mykola Riabchuk and works as an editor for the Ukrainian Culture magazine in Kiev.

Her first volume of poetry Ballad about the Invincibles ( Balada pro neskorenykh ) was published in 1976, while she was still a student. She also published the volumes The Underground Fire ( Підземний вогонь , 1984) and November ( Листопад , 1989). Her poetry collections Allergy ( Алергія , 1999) and Central Hotel ( Готель Централь , 2004) won the Book of the Month competition in 2000 and 2004, respectively .

Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps began translating Natalka Bilozerkivez's work in 1991. The New York performance theater group "Yara Arts Group" created a bilingual version of their poem May for the event Five Years After , commemorating the Chernobyl nuclear disaster , performed at the Ukrainian Institute of America in New York. The following winter, Tkacz used Bilozerkiwez's May as the textual basis for the Yara Art Group play Explosions performed at "La MaMa Experimental Theater in New York". Tkacz and Phipps received the "Poetry Translation Prize" of the literary magazine "Agni", which published the poem in 1991, for their translation work.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jane Eldridge Miller: Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing . Pp. 37-38. 2001.
  2. ↑ a b Natalka Bilotserkivets . In: 2010 International poetry festival Meridian Chernivtsi .
  3. ↑ http://www.brama.com/yara/bilotserkivets-may.html
personal data
SURNAME Bilozerkivets, Natalka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Білоцеркі́вець, Ната́лка Генна́діївна (Ukrainian); Bilozerkiwez, Natalka Hennadijiwna (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian poet and translator
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Kujanivka , Sumy Oblast , Ukrainian SSR