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Steve Komarnyckyj's literary translations and poems have appeared in Poetry Salzburg Review, The North, and Modern Poetry in Translation. His book of translations from the Ukrainian poet Pavlo Tychyna was published by Poetry Salzburg in 2011. His collection of translated poetry, A Flight Over the Black Sea, which was published by Waterloo Press in 2014, won an English PEN award. His most recent publication “Realm of Darkness” (Kalyna Language Press 1 September 2016) is a translation of a dystopian thriller set in 2077 by Ukrainian author Yuriy Shcherbak. Steve Komarnyckyj is the co director of Kalyna Language Press.
A ban on a Russian translation of British historian Anthony Beevor’s book “Stalingrad” was announced on the 10 January by a Ukrainian government body entitled The State Committee for State TV and Radio Broadcasting. The...
By Stephen Komarnyckyj, Photos and videos by maxpixel.freegreatpicture.com British translator and poet Stephen Komarnyckyj has agreed to give Euromaidan Press readers an exclusive peek at his translations of some of the most striking poems...
The girl whose gold shoes glittered with paste diamonds stood in the aisle of the plane, her arms outstretched, as the aircraft juddered. I caught her eye and she smiled and headed towards the back of the plane, tentative as a newborn...
What makes a man betray his country? Maxim Butchenko’s novel The War Artist explores this question against the backdrop of a war forgotten by Europe. As I write this introduction in February 2017 shells are raining down on a city in...
I traveled across Ukraine by train in 1993 and spent hours staring mesmerized at the seemingly endless pastures and forests. It was hard to believe that this vast country was so invisible in Western culture. Likewise, the Ukraine has one...
There are some old photographs which seem to preserve the subject in the amber light of a previous decade. Bohdan Ihor Antonych stares back at us from the thirties, sometimes with owlish spectacles, looking preternaturally boyish. He grew...
“Russia… That realm of darkness which oppresses Ukraine.” – Ivan Franko There are some predators, such as the Australian spider wasp, which inject their prey with venom leaving them conscious but helpless....
In the 1960s, the poet Vasyl Symonenko was walking in Bykivnia forest near Kyiv when he saw some boys playing football with a human skull. The graves of a vast number of Ukrainians, who had been murdered by the Soviets, were concealed...
Vote online for the only Ukrainian book ever awarded a PEN award at the PEN World Bookshelf contest. I met Ihor Pavlyuk, whose poems I have translated for A Flight Over the Black Sea, in by the Shevchenko monument in Lviv in 2013. He...
Free independent media is a necessary condition for democracy to function in any country. Censorship, on the other hand, is rampant in all its forms in dictatorships. These definitions may be relevant in a black and white world; in...
