Zhenia Vasylkivska[a] (6 January 1929 – 25 April 2021, born Yevheniia Vasylkivska)[b] was a Ukrainian poet and translator, literary critic, member of The New York Group of Poets.[1][2][3]
Zhenia Vasylkivska | |
|---|---|
| Native name | Женя Васильківська |
| Born | Yevheniia Vasylkivska 6 January 1929 Kovel, Ukrainian SSR, USSR (now Ukraine) |
| Died | 25 April 2021 (aged 92) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
Biography
editShe was born in Kovel in 1929. Vasylkivska left Ukraine in 1944. She first lived in the Austrian city of Linz, where she graduated from high school. In 1951, she moved to the United States, where she settled in New York City.[4]
She graduated from the United States with a degree in philology from Columbia University. She soon earned a doctorate in philosophy, defending her dissertation on the French poet Saint-John Perse. In 1968, she married Dr. C.F. Osgood.[5]
After graduation, she taught French in various educational institutions, and later worked as a political consultant for the US government.
Published in New York's New Poetry in 1961 and 1962, she published a collection of original poems "Short Distances" (1959), as well as published translations of mostly French authors (poetry by Jacques Prever, "Antigone" by Jean Anouilh, etc.). She lived in Northern Virginia. Vasylkivska's poems are included in all three anthologies of New York group poets published at this time.
She died of natural causes on 25 April 2021, in Washington.[1]
Bibliography
edit- Own works
- Zhenya Vasylkivska (1959). Short distances. New York: Association of Ukrainian Writers Slovo, 1959. 63 p.
- (Polish translation) Żenia Wasylkiwska / Short distances (2019). Short distances. Translation from Ukrainian: Tadeusz Karabowicz. Lublin: Episteme. 187 s. ISBN 9788365172822 (bilingual edition: Polish and Ukrainian)[6]
- Translations into Ukrainian
Jean Anouilh (1962). Antigone. Introductory article and translation from French: Zhenya Vasylkivska. Munich:?. 64 pages
Notes
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Померла поетеса Нью-Йоркської групи Женя Васильківська". chytomo.com. 29 April 2021.
- ^ "Збірка поетеси Жені Васильківської польською мовою". Наше слово. 27 February 2019.
- ^ "New-York Group of Poets – About Zhenja Vasylkivska – Ukrainian Poems (Roman Babowal Web Editor)". users.belgacom.net.
- ^ Васильківська Женя — Енциклопедія Сучасної України. Vol. 4. Інститут енциклопедичних досліджень НАН України. 2005. ISBN 9789660220744.
- ^ Dr. C. F. Osgood Weds Eugenia Vassylkivsky. Nytimes.com, 4 August 1968, P. 63
- ^ polskoyu-movoyu / Reviews and reviews. Collection of the poetess Zhenya Vasylkivska in Polish. №7, 27 February 20197