Ihor Pavlyuk

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.^[1]

He is a Winner of a 2013 English PEN Award^[2][3] and a Doctor of Social Communication.^[4]

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.^[3]

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,^[5] Poland, Turkey, Ireland, Pakistan,^[6] England,^[7] Czech Republic and international editions about Ukrainians from Volyn region, Ukrainian writers and poets.^[8]

Now Ihor Pavlyuk is Leading Researcher of Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kiev,^[9] professor of Ukrainian media Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, a member of the editorial boards of literary, art and scientific magazines: "Золота пектораль",^[10] "Дзвін",^[11] "Українська літературна газета",^[12] "Вісник Львівського університету".^[13]

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),^[14] "Muddy River Poetry Review",^[15] "Asymptote",^[16] "Gold Dust" (Issue 23),^[17] "The Adirondack Review",^[18] "The Recusant",^[19] "Metamorphoses"^[20] and many others.

Ihor Pavlyuk is the protagonist of the film "Between Bug and God"^[21] and film "Voice".^[22]

American actors read poems by Ihor Pavlyuk.^[23]

The book of Ihor Pavlyuk "A Flight over the Black Sea" became the winning book within Writers in Translation competition by English PEN club.^[24][25]

Ihor Pavlyuk is married. His wife Lyudmyla Pavlyuk is Associate Professor at Department of Journalism, Lviv University. Daughters Nadiya and Olesya are students.

Selected publications (books)

Poetry

• Islands of youth (Острови юності), 1990, ISBN 5-7745-0296-1
• Not this of place wind (Нетутешній вітер), 1993, ISBN 5-7745-0546-4
• Voice of daily Moon (Голос денного Місяця), 1994, ISBN 5-333-01392-6
• Glass tavern (Скляна корчма), 1995, ISBN 5-7707-7767-2
• Allergy to eternity (Babylonia) (Алергія на вічність), 1999, ISBN 966-7255-11-5
• Disaster (Стихія), 2002, ISBN 966-8017-04-8
• Masculine fortunetelling (Чоловіче ворожіння), 2002, ISBN 966-665-053-3
• The angel (or) English language? (poems by Ihor Pavlyuk in English), 2004, ISBN 966-665-164-5
• Magma (Магма), 2005, ISBN 966-603-409-3
• Rebellion (Бунт), 2006, ISBN 978-966-361-195-2
• The Tuning Fork (Камертон), 2007, ISBN 978-966-516-267-4
• Lyrics (Лірика), 2008, ISBN 978-966-665-502-1
• Ukraine at smoke (Україна в диму), 2009, ISBN 978-966-626-452-0
• Stratosphere (Стратосфера), 2010, ISBN 978-617-517-024-3
• Catching Gossamers (New York) (Ловлячи осінні павутинки, Ловя осенние паутинки), 2011, ISBN 9781461089490
• Confessions of the last sorcerer (Saint Petersburg) (Исповедь последнего волхва, Сповідь останнього волхва) (poems by Ihor Pavlyuk in Russian), 2012, ISBN 978-5-91419-730-5
• Masculine fortunetelling (Lublin) (Męskie wróżby (poems by Ihor Pavlyuk in Polish. Translator Tadej Karabovich), 2013, ISBN 978-83-62495-30-6
• Teamster (Kiev), (Погонич), 2014, Погонщик (poems by modern Russian poet Yevgeny Chigrin in Ukrainian. Translator Ihor Pavlyuk. Forewords by Yevgeny Rein, Ihor Pavlyuk), ISBN 978-617-7015-14-6
• A Flight over the Black Sea (London, Waterloo Press), (Політ над Чорним морем), 2014 (poems by Ihor Pavlyuk in English. Translated from Ukrainian by Stephen Komarnyckyj, foreword to a book written recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature Mo Yan and Naomi Foyle, Steve Komarnyckyj, Dmytro Drozdovskyi), ISBN 978-1-906742-70-6
• Game and Battle (Гра і битва), 2014, ISBN 978-966-10-4010-5
• Magma of Polissya (Magma polésien: poèmes / Traduction française par Dmytro Tchystiak et Athanase Vantchev de Thracy. Rouen, Christophe Chmomant éditeur, 2015.). (The book of poetry in French, Rouen), ISBN 978-2-84962-319-0

Prose

• Biography of the tree of tribe of poets (Біографія дерева племені поетів), 2003, ISBN 966-665-053-3
• Forbidden Bloom (Заборонений цвіт), 2007, ISBN 978-966-8770-99-9
• Out of Range (Поза зоною), 2012, ISBN 978-966-10-2806-6

Monographs

• Writer – Power – Press: historical and typological analysis (Митець – Влада – Преса: історико-типологічний аналіз), 1997, ISBN 966-517-033-3
• Diagnostics and prognosis of lie: digressions in the theory of communication (Діагностика і прогностика брехні: екскурси в теорію комунікації), 2003, ISBN 966-665-129-7
• There are writers in a press (Письменники у пресі), 2010, ISBN 978-966-361-525-7

Book for children

• The Flying Cauldron (Літаючий казан), 2003, ISBN 966-7964-14-0

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.^[26]

Awards

• People’s Taras Shevchenko Prize^[27]
• Hryhorii Skovoroda prize^[28]
• International Nikolai Gogol literary prize "Triumph"^[29]
• Winner of a 2013 English PEN Award^[30][31]

See also

• Ukrainian literature
• Contemporary Ukrainian literature

References

External links

• Modern Ukrainian Literature
• Jérôme Cooper. A Flight Over the Black Sea
• David Hart. An instinct for voice
• Voices from Ukraine
• The situation in Ukraine
• A Flight Over The Black Sea: A conversation about Ukraine @Richmix London 5/3/2014
• Twenty-third Biennial Congress
• Speech of Ukrainian poet Ihor Pavlyuk (International Punjabi Congress, Pakistan, December 28, 2013)
• An interview with... Ihor Pavlyuk and Steve Komarnyckyj
• PEN Atlas Q&A: Ihor Pavlyuk and Steve Komarnyckyj

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