Ihor Pavlyuk | |
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 Ihor Pavlyuk in 2008 | |
| Native name | Ігор Павлюк |
| Born | January 1, 1967 Rozhysche Raion, Volyn Oblast, Ukraine |
| Occupation | poet, novelist, essayist |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Genre | Ukrainian literature |
| Notable works | A Flight over the Black Sea (2014), Arthania (2020) |
| Website | |
| ihor-pavlyuk | |
Ihor Pavlyuk (sometimes spelled as Ihor Pawlyuk, Igor Pavlyk, Igor Pavluk; Ukrainian: І́гор Зино́війович Павлю́к, Russian: Игорь Зиновьевич Павлюк, born 1 January 1967 in Rozhysche Raion, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian writer, translator and research worker.[1] Named People's Poet of Ukraine in 2020.[2]
He is the winner of a 2013 English PEN Award,[3][4] and the winner of the Switzerland Literary Prize 2021.[5][6] He also holds a doctorate in Social Communication.[7]
Ihor Pavlyuk is a member of the English PEN and member of the European Society of Authors.
Ihor Pavlyuk was born in the Volyn region on January 1, 1967. His mother died ten days after giving birth to him. He was raised by his grandfather and grandmother on his mother's side, both of whom were migrant peasants (Operation Vistula) from the Helm region (now Poland). Ihor Pavlyuk's family on his father's side, also from Volyn, was repressed for participating in the national liberation struggle, sent to a special settlement at Kiselyovsk in 1947 and rehabilitated in 1991.[8][9]
He studied at the Saint Petersburg military engineering-technical university, which he left in order to pursue his career as a writer. As a result he was sentenced to a period of hard labour in the Taiga (Zabaykal'skiy region) but continued to write as best he could, driven by a nostalgia for his Ukrainian homeland, until he was freed when the Soviet Union fell. In 1992 Ihor Pavlyuk graduated from the Department of Journalism at Lviv University (he included in the list of the "100 Notable alumni of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv")[10] and worked as a correspondent of religious press and radio in Lviv.
He has participated in various international literary festivals, including Estonia, Georgia, Russia, Belarus, Germany, Italy, the United States,[11] Poland, Turkey, Ireland, Pakistan,[12] England,[13] Czech Republic, Switzerland, Austria.
Ihor Pavlyuk is presently a Leading Researcher at the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv,[14] Professor of Ukrainian media at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv,[15] a member of the editorial boards of literary, art and scientific magazines: "Золота пектораль",[16] "Дзвін",[17] "Українська літературна газета",[18] "Вісник Львівського університету".[19]
Works of Ihor Pavlyuk have been translated into Russian, Belarusian, Polish, English, French, Chinese, Latvian, Bulgarian, Japanese, Italian,[20][21] and other languages and published in such magazines as "Acumen",[22] "The Apple Valley Review" (Volume 7, Number 2 (Fall 2012),[23] "Muddy River Poetry Review",[24] "Asymptote",[25] "Gold Dust" (Issue 23), "The Adirondack Review", "The Recusant",[26] "Metamorphoses", "Eurasia Review", "The world poets quarterly", "The Guardian",[27] "Critical Muslim" (2022),[28] "Spillwords press" (2023),[29] "Of Poets & Poetry" (2023),[30] Chinese magazines "Fleurs des lettres", «Foreign literature and art (外國文學藝術)»,[31] journal of Ukrainian poetry in English, Hindi and Ukrainian language “Uyava Chronicle” (A Trilingual Journal of Ukrainian Poetry)[32] and many others.
Ihor Pavlyuk is the protagonist of the film "Between Bug and God"[33] and film "Voice".[34]
The work of Ihor Pavlyuk is included in the official school curriculum with Ukrainian literature.[35]
The book of Ihor Pavlyuk "A Flight over the Black Sea" became the winning book within Writers in Translation competition by English PEN club.[36] Academia.edu has included book "A Flight over the Black Sea" in the authoritative list “The Greatest Great Books List Ever”.[37]
Ihor Pavlyuk is married. His wife Lyudmyla Pavlyuk is Associate Professor at Department of Journalism of Lviv University.[38] They have two adult daughters.
