Bohdan Ihor Antonych

Lidia Stefanowska (Uniwersytet Warszawski/ University of Warsaw)

Ed. by Roman Koropeckyj, University of California, Los Angeles
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 9 Oct 1909
Died 6 Jul 1937

Places

Born in Poland
Active in Ukraine; Poland

Activities

Primary

Poet

Other

Literary Critic/ Historian
Prose writer

Resources

Antonych's Works

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Bohdan Ihor Antonych (1909–1937) was one of the most remarkable Ukrainian poets of the twentieth century, who left an extraordinary literary legacy with just a handful of published books. He was also a literary critic, translator, and journalist. His formal education, at the gymnasium in Sanok and at Lviv University (1928-34), was conducted exclusively in Polish. At home he spoke Lemko, an East Slavic dialect customarily grouped with Ukrainian, but distinctly different from the literary language. As for literary Ukrainian, which became the language of his writing, Antonych began to learn it relatively late as a teenager at the gymnasium. Literary trilingualism and triculturalism were formative aspects in his artistic development. His literary œuvre thus requires a proper understanding…

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Citation: Stefanowska, Lidia. "Bohdan Ihor Antonych". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 06 April 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13633, accessed 26 November 2024.]