Oksana Zabuzhko

Uilleam Blacker (University College London)

Ed. by Andrei Rogatchevski, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.2.00: Post-1917 Writing and Culture in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1917-present.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

Born 19 Sep 1960
Activity 1985-ongoing

Places

Born in Ukraine
Active in Ukraine

Activities

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Novelist

Other

Essayist
Poet

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Zabuzhko's Works

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Oksana Zabuzhko is a distinguished poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic and public intellectual, whose varied and prolific writings have made her one of the most important figures in the literary and intellectual landscape of contemporary Ukraine. Her works have been translated into several foreign languages, and she has been the recipient of a number of awards, including the Angelus Central European Literature Award (2013) and the Antonovych Prize (2009).

Zabuzhko was born in 1960 in Luts’k in western Ukraine, but moved to Kyiv while still a child. She studied philosophy at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, where she was involved in student activist movements, participating in the Revolution on the Granite in 1990. As a public intellectual she has always maintained

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Citation: Blacker, Uilleam. "Oksana Zabuzhko". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 February 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13337, accessed 22 November 2024.]