347. Uilleam Blacker - Literature has been Played a Key Role in the Survival and Resilience of Ukraine.

Even for avid supporters of Ukraine, like me, Ukrainian literature
remains and undiscovered country. Today I’m speaking with Uilleam
Blacker who can guide on a journey of discovery, to engage with
Ukrainian culture and identity. Ukrainian literature has a strong
tradition of folk tales and oral poetry, and it has been influenced by
the country's complex political and cultural history, including periods
of colonization and national struggle. Russian literature, on the other
hand, has been shaped by its own distinct history, including periods of
imperial expansion and revolutionary upheaval. Ukrainian writers were
persecuted in the 1920s during the period of Soviet rule in Ukraine, as
part of a process to suppress Ukrainian national identity and culture
and replace it with a new Soviet identity; literature was a key tool for
this, as it is also for Russia today.
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Uilleam Blacker is an associate professor in the comparative culture of
Eastern Europe at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at
University College London. He is the author of Memory, the City, and the
Legacy of World War II in East Central Europe (Routledge). He has
translated the work of many Ukrainian authors, including Oleg Sentsov’s
short story collection Life Went On Anyway (Deep Vellum). His
translations of novels by Taras Prokhasko and Maik Yohansen will be
published in the Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature series. His
translations have appeared in many anthologies and journals, including
The White Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, and Words Without
Borders.
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LINKS:
https://twitter.com/BlackerUilleam
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/people/uilleam-blacker
https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/judges/uilleam-blacker
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/authors/65551-blacker-uilleam
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Nikolai Gogol

Lesia Ukrainka
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674291775

Olha Kobylianska
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sunday-Morning-She-Gathered-Herbs/dp/1895571340

Mike Yohansen
https://books.huri.harvard.edu/books/maik-yohansen-dr-leonardos-journey

Mykhail Semenko

Valerian Pidmohylnyi
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Yuri Andrukhovych
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Moscoviad-Yuri-Andrukhovych/dp/1933132523

Taras Prokhasko
https://tarnawsky.artsci.utoronto.ca/elul/Ukr_Lit/Vol02/03-Prokhasko-Unsimple1.pdf
and
https://tarnawsky.artsci.utoronto.ca/elul/Ukr_Lit/Vol03/06-ProkhaskoUnsimple-Part-2.pdf

Yuri Izdryk
https://losthorsepress.org/catalog/smokes/

Viktoria Amelina
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/03/poem-about-a-crow-a-work-by-the-killed-ukrainian-writer-victoria-amelina

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