Ivan Antonovych Malkovych (; born 10 May 1961 in

Nyzhnii Bereziv Nyzhnii Bereziv () is a village in the Yabluniv settlement hromada of the Kosiv Raion of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in Ukraine. History The first written mention of the village was in 1412.

Ivano-Frankivsk Ivano-Frankivsk (, ), formerly Stanyslaviv, Stanislav and Stanisławów, is a city in western Ukraine. It serves as the administrative centre of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast as well as Ivano-Frankivsk Raion within the oblast. Ivano-Frankivsk also host ...

) is a noted Ukrainian

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...

and

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. He is the proprietor of the publishing house " A-BA-BA-HA-LA-MA-HA", which specializes in high quality (often illustrated) editions of Ukrainian literature and poetry, and has been a winner of many industry awards. Laureate of the

Shevchenko National Prize Shevchenko National Prize (; also ''Shevchenko Award'') is the highest state prize of Ukraine for works of culture and arts awarded since 1961. It is named after the inspirer of Ukrainian national revival Taras Shevchenko. It is one of the five ...

in 2016.

Biography

He completed his studies as a violinist at the Music college in Ivano-Frankivsk before entering

Kyiv University The Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (; also known as Kyiv University, Shevchenko University, or KNU) is a public university in Kyiv, Ukraine. The university is the third-oldest university in Ukraine after the University of Lviv and ...

in 1978, where he majored in Ukrainian philology. He was noted by poet

Dmytro Pavlychko Dmytro Vasylyovych Pavlychko (; 28 September 1929 – 29 January 2023) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, scriptwriter, culturologist, and politician. Pavlychko published poetry and translations since the 1950s. His work came under censorship ...

who took him under his wing. Malkovych was closely associated with the first Canadian-Ukrainian joint venture known as

Kobza The kobza (), also called bandura () is a Ukrainian folk music instrument of the lute family (Hornbostel-Sachs classification number 321.321-5+6), a relative of the Central European mandora. The term ''kobza'' however, has also been applied to ...

and was involved in the setting up of the Chervona Ruta festival of contemporary Music held in

Chernivtsi Chernivtsi (, ; , ;, , see also #Names, other names) is a city in southwestern Ukraine on the upper course of the Prut River. Formerly the capital of the historic region of Bukovina, which is now divided between Romania and Ukraine, Chernivt ...

in 1989.

Career

Malkovych published 6 collections of his own verse: * "White Stone" («Білий камінь» 1984) * "The Key" («Ключ» 1988) * "Poems" («Вірші» (1992) * "An Angel on my Shoulder" («Із янголом на плечі» 1997) * "Winter Poems" («Вірші на зиму» (2006) * "All that's near" («Все поруч» (2010)

References

Ukrainian publishers (people) Ukrainian male poets Living people 1961 births People from Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv alumni Ukrainian violinists 21st-century violinists Recipients of the Honorary Diploma of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine {{Ukraine-writer-stub