Nationality Ukrainian Role Writer | Name Ihor Pavlyuk Books Catching Gossamers | |
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Notable works A Flight over the Black Sea (2014). Nominations Shevchenko National Prize in Literature |
An interview with... Ihor Pavlyuk and Steve Komarnyckyj
Ihor Pavlyuk (sometimes spelled as Ihor Pawlyuk, Igor Pavlyk, Igor Pavluk; Ukrainian: І́гор Зино́війович Павлю́к, Russian: Игорь Зиновьевич Павлюк, born 1 January 1967 in Uzhova, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian writer and research worker.
Contents
- An interview with Ihor Pavlyuk and Steve Komarnyckyj
- VOICE Film about Ukrainian poet Ihor Pavlyuk
- Life and career
- Poetry
- Prose
- Monographs
- Book for children
- Awards
- References
He is a Winner of a 2013 English PEN Award and a Doctor of Social Communication.
Ihor Pavlyuk is a member of the European Society of Authors.
VOICE. Film about Ukrainian poet Ihor Pavlyuk
Life and career
Ihor Pavlyuk was born in the Volyn region on January 1, 1967. His mother died in ten days after giving birth to him. He was raised at home of his grandfather and grandmother on his mother’s side — migrants with Helm region.
He studied at the Saint Petersburg military engineering-technical university, which he left in order to pursue his career as a writer. He was, as a result, sentenced to a period of hard labour in the Taiga (Zabaykal'skiy region) but continued to write as best he could, driven by a nostalgia for his Ukrainian homeland, until he was liberated by the fall of the Soviet Union.
In 1992 Ihor Pavlyuk graduated from the Department of Journalism at Lviv University and worked as the correspondent of religious press and radio in Lviv.
He has participated in various international literary festivals, including Estonia, Georgia, Russia, Belarus, the United States of America, Poland, Turkey, Ireland, Pakistan, England, Czech Republic and international editions about Ukrainians from Volyn region, Ukrainian writers and poets.
Now Ihor Pavlyuk is Leading Researcher of Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kiev, professor of Ukrainian media Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, a member of the editorial boards of literary, art and scientific magazines: "Золота пектораль", "Дзвін", "Українська літературна газета", "Вісник Львівського університету".
Works of Ihor Pavlyuk are have been translated into Russian, Belarusian, Polish, English, French, Latvian, Bulgarian, Japanese and other languages and published in such magazines as "The Apple Valley Review" (Volume 7, Number 2 (Fall 2012), "Muddy River Poetry Review", Asymptote, "Gold Dust" (Issue 23), "The Adirondack Review", "The Recusant", "Metamorphoses", "Eurasia Review" and many others.
Ihor Pavlyuk is the protagonist of the film "Between Bug and God" and film "Voice".
American actors read poems by Ihor Pavlyuk.
The book of Ihor Pavlyuk "A Flight over the Black Sea" became the winning book within Writers in Translation competition by English PEN club.
Ihor Pavlyuk is married. His wife Lyudmyla Pavlyuk is Associate Professor at Department of Journalism, Lviv University. Daughters Nadiya and Olesya are students.
Poetry
Prose
Monographs
Book for children
Nobel Laureate Mo Yan said in the preface of the book Ihor Pavlyuk "A Flight over the Black Sea":
I know that a nebulous terrain exists in the hearts and minds of every person, a terrain that cannot be adequately characterized in simple terms of right and wrong or good and bad. I see this ambiguity in Ihor Pavlyuk’s works and I am happy in the knowledge that there is a very good poet in Ukraine.