Why I translate Ukraine’s silenced poets
For Russians, good or bad, the war and Ukraine are usually all about them. That is why now, more than ever, we must work to recover Ukrainian culture as a whole from its marginalization.
Transreading Ukrainian Poetry: the first course inspiring English writers through Ukraine’s literature
PEN Award-Winning Poet and Literary Translator Stephen Komarnyckyj is teaching an online creative writing course that uses his…
Lost in Translation? The myth of Ukraine’s ban on “Stalingrad” by Anthony Beevor
A ban on a Russian translation of British historian Anthony Beevor’s book “Stalingrad” was announced on the 10…
A taste of Ukraine’s poetic Renaissance executed by Stalin
By Stephen Komarnyckyj, Photos and videos by maxpixel.freegreatpicture.com British translator and poet Stephen Komarnyckyj has agreed to give…
Poetry on fire: a personal journey through Ukraine’s Executed Renaissance
The girl whose gold shoes glittered with paste diamonds stood in the aisle of the plane, her arms…
What makes a man betray his country? Donbas native tells in novel of Europe’s forgotten war
What makes a man betray his country? Maxim Butchenko’s novel The War Artist explores this question against the…
Ukrainian translations, Russian oppression, and soft power
I traveled across Ukraine by train in 1993 and spent hours staring mesmerized at the seemingly endless pastures…
“Rebellious pagan” Ukrainian poet Antonych receives English translation
There are some old photographs which seem to preserve the subject in the amber light of a previous…
How Russia’s use of deniable assets bamboozled western security services
“Russia… That realm of darkness which oppresses Ukraine.” – Ivan Franko There are some predators, such as…
Ukrainian book on “little things in life” seeks to reach the English reader
Girls Talk Don’t come any closer Don’t come any nearer My vision of you Can’t come any clearer…
Ukraine’s Executed Renaissance and a kickstarter for one of its modern successors
In the 1960s, the poet Vasyl Symonenko was walking in Bykivnia forest near Kyiv when he saw some…
Let the songbird out of the cage – vote for Ukrainian literature
Vote online for the only Ukrainian book ever awarded a PEN award at the PEN World Bookshelf contest. I…
Fancy a frack? How the UK Greens got into bed with Putin
When former NATO secretary Anders Fogh Rassmussen alleged that Russia was funding the anti-fracking movement in June 2014, he…
A strategy for damaging Russia’s propaganda machine
Prepared by Steve Komarnyckyj for Euromaidan Press 1) Aim The aim of this strategy is to provide a…