Liudmyla Taran

It is elegant, pleasant to the eye and touch. Most importantly, it is very rich in information. This illustrated “family album,” which opens with a dedication to the author’s son Artem, should be a go-to book not only in Ukraine. After all, it includes the English version of the...

I associate the personality of Serhii YAKUTOVYCH with many things, such as a lay monk. Maybe, hence the link with the inner and outer image of Prince Dolgoruky. (Do you remember the 1769 portrait by master Samuil exhibited at Kyiv’s National Art Museum?) On the other end of my association...

One hundred fifty unique artifacts belonging to 27 institutions (museums, archives, libraries, and private collectors) in Ukraine, Sweden, and the USA, are presented at the Ukrainian Museum of New York City in the recently opened exhibit “Ukraine-Sweden: the Crossroads of History (17th-18th...

Olha Seniuk’s Ukrainian translation of Poltava by the Swedish author Peter Englund will be published in Ukraine in conjunction with the 300th anniversary of the Battle of Poltava. Seniuk was born in Ivano-Frankivsk oblast. She is a laureate of the Maksym Rylsky Literary Prize and specializes in...

Vira Vovk, a Ukrainian poetess, prose writer, and playwright, was born in Boryslav, Lviv oblast. Fate cast her after the war to faraway Brazil. She has recently come to Ukraine — by no means for the first time — to bow to her native soil and conduct the presentation at the National Union of Writers...