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Dmytro Kremin
Dmytro Dmytrovych Kremin ( uk, Дмитро Дмитрович Кремінь; 21 August 1953 – 25 May 2019) was a Ukrainian poet, journalist, translator, and scholar. Kremin was one of the awardees of The Taras Shevchenko National Literary Prize in 1999, for the book of poems called ''Pectoral''. Biography Dmytro Kremin was born on 21 August 1953 in the village of Suha in the Irshava district of Transcarpathia (Zakarpattia region), Ukraine. He graduated with degree in Philology from the Uzhhorod National University in 1975. After graduation, he went to work in the town of Kazanka in the Mykolaiv region as a school teacher of Russian Language and Literature, and then of Ukrainian Language and Literature. Later, he worked for the Kazanka district newspaper. In 1979, Kremin moved with his wife Olha and a one-year-old son Taras to the city of Mykolaiv, which became a second home to the poet. There, he took a position of a professor for the Ukrainian Literature Department at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irshava
Irshava ( uk, Іршава; hu, Ilosva) is a town located in Zakarpattia Oblast ( province) in western Ukraine. It was the administrative center of Irshava Raion ( district) until it was abolished in 2020 and was merged with Khust Raion. Today, the population is . Names There are several alternative names used for this city: rue, Иршава, russian: Иршава, hu, Ilosva, german: Irschawa, sk, Iršava, ro, Iloșva, pl, Irszawa, and yi, Orsheve. History The Hasidic Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum (later of Satmar) lived in Irshava twice, between 1911-1914, and again between 1922-1925. He established a yeshiva there. A local newspaper is published here since October 1946. City since September 1982. In January 1989 the population was 9873 people. Demographics In 2001, population was 10,515. It included: * Ukrainians (98.6%) * Russians (0.7%) *Slovaks (0.3%) * Hungarians (0.3%) Native language in 2001: * Ukrainian (97.9%) * Russian (1.4%) * Hungarian (0.4%) Natives ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zbigniew Herbert
Zbigniew Herbert (; 29 October 1924 – 28 July 1998) was a Polish poet, essayist, drama writer and moralist. He is one of the best known and the most translated post-war Polish writers. While he was first published in the 1950s (a volume titled ''Chord of Light'' was issued in 1956), soon after he voluntarily ceased submitting most of his works to official Polish government publications. He resumed publication in the 1980s, initially in the underground press. Since the 1960s, he was nominated several times for the Nobel Prize in literature. His books have been translated into 38 languages. Herbert claimed to be a distant relative of the 17th-century Anglo-Welsh poet George Herbert. Herbert was educated as an economist and a lawyer. Herbert was one of the main poets of the Polish opposition to communism. Starting in 1986, he lived in Paris, where he cooperated with the journal ''Zeszyty Literackie''. He came back to Poland in 1992. On 1 July 2007 the Polish Government institute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 Births
Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugoslavia. ** The CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon. * January 15 – Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying. * January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into ''I Love Lucy'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record has yet to be broken. * January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is sworn in as the 34th President of the United States. * January 24 ** Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya kill the Ruck family (father, mother, and six-year-old son). ** Leader of East Germany Walter Ulbricht announces that agriculture will be col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volodymyr Sosiura
Volodymyr Mikolayovich Sosiura ( uk , Володимир Сосюра; January 6, 1898, in Debaltseve, Yekaterinoslav Governorate (today Donetsk Oblast) of the Russian Empire – January 8, 1965, in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union) was a Ukrainian lyric poet, writer, veteran of the Russian Civil War (1918–1920). Brief biography Volodymyr Sosiura was born in a settlement of Debaltseve train station (today city of Debaltseve).Halchenko, Serhiy Anastasiyovych. (СОСЮРА ВОЛОДИМИР МИКОЛАЙОВИЧ)'. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. He started to work in 1909 at the Donets Soda Factory in a settlement Verkhnee (today part of Lysychansk) where he worked for couple of years. In 1914–1918 he studied in an agricultural school (uchilische) in a settlement of Yama train station (today Siversk). In 1918 Sosiura was a member of the Donets Soda Factory insurgent workers group. Sosiura fought in Petliura's Ukrainian People's Army (the 3rd Haidama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mykola Arkas
Mykola ( uk, Мико́ла, Mykóla, ) is a Slavic name, Slavic variant, more specifically a Ukrainian name, Ukrainian variant, of the masculine name "Nicholas", meaning "victory of the people". It may refer to: People *Mykola Arkas (1853–1909), Ukrainian composer, writer, historian, and cultural activist *Mykola Avilov (born 1948), Ukrainian Soviet decathlete, competed at the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Olympics *Mykola Azarov (born 1947), Ukrainian politician, Prime Minister of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014 *Mykola Babak (born 1954) is a Ukrainian artist, writer, publisher, and art collector *Mykola Bahlay (born 1976), Ukrainian football forward *Mykola Bakay (1931–1998), Ukrainian singer, composer, poet, author and Soviet dissident *Mykola Balan, Ukrainian military official, Lieutenant General, a commander of the National Guard of Ukraine *Mykola Bazhan (1904–1983), Soviet Ukrainian writer, poet and politician *Mykola Belokurov (1926–2006), Soviet middle-distance runner *Mykola Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Malahat Review
''The Malahat Review'' is a Canadian quarterly literary magazine established in 1967. It features contemporary Canadian and international works of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction as well as reviews of recently published Canadian literature. Iain Higgins is the current editor. ''The Malahat Review'' publishes new work by emerging and established writers of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction from Canada and abroad. ''The Malahat Review'' is based in Victoria, British Columbia, and circulates locally, regionally, and nationally throughout Canada and sixteen other countries. A paid subscription base exists that is 88 percent Canadian, with libraries representing 16 percent of paid subscriptions. History ''The Malahat Review'' was founded in 1967 at the University of Victoria by Robin Skelton and John Peter. The magazine was edited by Skelton from 1971 to 1983, and thereafter by Constance Rooke, Derk Wynand, Marlene Cookshaw, and John Barton (editor from 2004 to 2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayden's Ferry Review
''Hayden's Ferry Review'' is a literary magazine published biannually by Arizona State University (ASU). The magazine was established in 1986 and is headquartered in the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at ASU. It also manages a blog with news, information, and reviews about current events in literature and publishing. See also * List of literary magazines A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ... References External links * {{Arizona State University, state=collapsed Arizona State University Biannual magazines published in the United States Literary magazines published in the United States Magazines established in 1986 Magazines published in Arizona Mass media in Tempe, Arizona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prism International
''Prism International'' (styled ''PRISM international'') is a magazine published quarterly in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Established in 1959, it is Western Canada's senior literary magazine. The magazine was started with name ''Prism'' and five years later its name changed to ''Prism International''. The focus of the magazine is contemporary fiction and poetry, but it also publishes drama and creative non-fiction Creative nonfiction (also known as literary nonfiction or narrative nonfiction or literary journalism or verfabula) is a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives. Creative nonfiction contra .... The rendering of the name is idiosyncratic: "PRISM" is intentionally all upper-case and "international" is all lower case. References External links * 1959 establishments in British Columbia Literary magazines published in Canada Magazines established in 1959 Magazines published in Vancouver Quarterly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The London Magazine
''The London Magazine'' is the title of six different publications that have appeared in succession since 1732. All six have focused on the arts, literature and miscellaneous topics. 1732–1785 ''The London Magazine, or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer'' was founded in 1732 in political opposition and rivalry to the Tory-supporting ''Gentleman's Magazine'' and ran for 53 years until its closure in 1785. Edward Kimber became editor in 1755, succeeding his father Isaac Kimber. Henry Mayo was editor from 1775 to 1783. Publishers included Thomas Astley. 1820–1829 In 1820 the ''London Magazine'' was resurrected by the publishers Baldwin, Craddock & Joy under the editorship of John Scott who formatted the magazine along the lines of the Edinburgh publication ''Blackwood's Magazine''. It was during this time that the magazine published poems by William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Clare and John Keats. In September 1821 the first of two instalments of Thomas De Quinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Thornton
Russell Thornton (born 20 February 1942) is a Cherokee- American anthropologist and professor of anthropology at the University of California at Los Angeles, who is known for his studies of the population history of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. His publications include: * 1986 We Shall Live Again: The 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance Movements as Demographic Revitalization (Cambridge University Press). * 1987 American Indian Holocaust and Survival (University of Oklahoma Press). * 1990 The Cherokees: A Population History (University of Nebraska Press). * 1998 Editor. Studying Native America: Problems and Prospects (University of Wisconsin Press). * 2007 Co-editor with Candace S. Greene. The Year the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian (University of Nebraska Press and the Smithsonian Institution). Awards & Grants * College of Social Sciences Sesquicentennial Lecture, The Florida State University, 2001 * Distinguished Professorship, UCLA, 2004-present * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svetlana Ischenko
Svitlana Viktorivna Ischenko ( uk, Світлана Вікторівна Іщенко, born July 30, 1969, Mykolaiv, Ukraine) — poet, translator, stage actress, teacher, artist. She is a member of The Ukrainian Writers’ Association (1997) and The National Writers' Union of Ukraine (1998). Biography Svitlana Ischenko was born on July 30, 1969 in Mykolaiv, in the steppe region of the south of Ukraine. She graduated from Mykolaiv public school number 38. Svetlana pursued her childhood love of music at the Mykolaiv Rimsky-Korsakov Music School, and graduated in piano in 1986. She received a College Diploma in Acting, Stage Directing and Visual Art from the Mykolaiv State College of Culture in 1988. She later attended the Mykolaiv Branch of the Kyiv State University of Culture and Arts and received a BA in Recreation Management and Pedagogy in 1998. For several years (1988–2001), Ischenko was a stage actress at the Mykolaiv Ukrainian Theatre of Drama and Musical Comedy. She pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński
Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński (23 January 1905 – 6 December 1953), alias ''Karakuliambro'', was a Polish poet. He is well known for the "paradramatic" absurd humorous sketches of the ''Green Goose Theatre''. Biography Born to a lower-middle-class family in Warsaw, Gałczyński was evacuated with his parents at the outbreak of World War I, and from 1914 to 1918 he lived in Moscow, where he attended a Polish school. Returning to Poland in 1918, he studied classics and English language at the University of Warsaw, submitting a dissertation on a non-existent nineteenth-century English poet, Morris Gordon Cheats. His literary debut came in 1923 and was a member of the Kwadryga group of poets, and he was linked to satirical and political publications. In 1930 he married Natalia Avalov. From 1931-33, he held the post of cultural attaché in Berlin. From 1934-36 he was in Vilnius. He settled there at 2 Młynowa Street. There, in 1936, the couple's daughter Kira was born. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
