Dmytro Drozdovsky

The writer was born on November 8, 1954, in Nagasaki, Japan, and won international fame in the UK. According to the metaphoric and aphoristic definition of the Nobel Committee, “in novels of great emotional force, [he] has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with...

Famous actress Larysa Kadyrova played the role of Maria Zankovetska. In October, within the framework of the 9th Women’s Theater Festival of Solo Performances, the pilot version of the play was presented. Now, after some improvements Maria appeared on the poster of the Ivan Franko Theater....

In September, some Verkhovna Rada deputies launched an attempt to change the status of the Russian language in Ukraine under the cover of the purported desire to guarantee preservation and unfettered development of regional languages. Unfortunately, the people’s elected representatives have...

There is no objective criticism, nor is there objective art, and all those who boast that they put something different into their work, deceive themselves with the most deceitful of philosophies. Anatole France (epigraph to the article by Dmytro Dontsov “Poetess of the Ukrainian...

The University of Cambridge is opening a permanent program in Ukrainian studies, where students will be able to learn the Ukrainian language and culture. In fact, there are very few departments of Ukrainian studies in Europe nowadays. Italy (first and foremost, due to professor Oxana Pachliovska...

Only then is an individual a human when they are part of a people. Lina Kostenko Fate decreed that I visit Sevastopol in late April – ostensibly to take part in the final of a competition in honor of Lina Kostenko’s jubilee. As the event was held in Sevastopol, I had to travel to...

Continued from previous issue Hrushevsky wrote the last volume in difficult social and historical conditions, when any attempt to determine the national dominants in literary progress was branded as “bourgeois nationalism.” The sixth volume appeared in print rather late, and the publication...

Ukraine’s first President Mykhailo Hrushevsky died in Kislovodsk on Nov. 25, 1934. He was a noted historian and active public and political figure. The year 2009 marked the 75th anniversary of this tragic event. Hrushevsky’s scholarly legacy appears to have been largely covered by Ukrainian...

What strikes a visitor first is not Great Britain’s diversity (after all, it is good that people who once suffered under the imperial colonial yoke can now enjoy European living and working conditions) but, rather, the fact that so many people are prepared to forget all about their ethnic...

Poets are not afraid of Eternity. Each of them has their own one. The element of water is eternity for the Ukrainian-American poet Yurii Lazirko. This year the author, who is well-known in the poetical spaces of the Internet, has published his first book of poems. Yurii Lazirko was born in 1967 in...