Oksana Zabuzhko

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Oksana Zabuzhko

Born September 19, 1960 (1960-09-19) (age 47)
Lutsk, USSR
Occupation novelist, poet, essayist
Nationality Ukrainian
Genres Ukrainian literature
Notable work(s) Field Work In Ukrainian Sex (1996)
Influences
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Oksana Zabuzhko (Ukrainian: Оксана Стефанівна Забужко) (b. September 19, 1960, Lutsk, Ukraine) is a contemporary Ukrainian poet, writer and essayist.

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[edit] Life

Oksana Zabuzhko studied philosophy at the Kyiv University, where she also made her doctorate on aesthetics in 1987. In 1992 she taught at the Penn State University as an invited writer. Zabuzhko won Fulbright scholarship in 1994 and taught Ukrainian literature at Harvard and University of Pittsburgh. Currently Oksana Zabuzhko works at the Hryhori Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

[edit] Works

Oksana Zabuzhko is well known both for her literary works and criticism. Her controversial bestseller novel Field Work in Ukrainian Sex was translated in eight languages. In her writing Zabuzhko draws a lot of attention to the questions of Ukrainian self-identification, post-colonial issues and feminism.

[edit] Major published texts

[edit] Poetry

  • Second Attempt (2005) Друга спроба

[edit] Prose

  • Field Work In Ukrainian Sex (1996) Польові дослідження з українського сексу
  • Sister, Sister (2003) Сестро, сестро

[edit] Non-fiction

  • Notre Dame d'Ukraine: Ukrayinka in the Conflict of Mythologies (2007) Notre Dame d’Ukraine: Українка в конфлікті міфологій
  • Let my People Go: 15 Texts About Ukrainian Revolution (2005) Let my people go. 15 текстів про українську революцію
  • The Fortinbras Chronicles (1999) Хроніки від Фортінбраса
  • Philosophy of the Ukrainian Idea and the European Context: Franko Period (1992) Філософія української ідеї та європейський контекст: Франківський період

[edit] Zabuzhko's texts translated in English

  • O. Zabuzhko Girls, translated from the Ukrainian by Askold Melnyczuk.
  • O. Zabuzhko I, Milena in: The Third Shore: Women's Fiction from East Central Europe (Writings from an Unbound Europe) (Paperback) by Agata Schwartz, Luise von Flotow. Also found in: Two Lands, New Visions: Stories from Canada and Ukraine by Janice Kulyk Keefer (Editor), Solomea Pavlychko (Editor).
  • O. Zabuzhko Field Work In Ukrainian Sex (Excerpt). AGNI, 53, Spring 2001.
  • A Kingdom of Fallen Statues. Poems and Essays by Oksana Zabuzhko Transl. by Marco Carynnyk, Askold Melnyczuk, Michael M.Naydan, Wanda Phipps, Lisa Sapinkopf, Douglas Burnet Smith, and Virlana Tkacz. Toronto: Wellspring Ltd., 1996

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