Michael M. Naydan

Michael Marion Naydan (born 1952) is an American literary scholar and translator, the Woskob Family Professor of Ukrainian Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He is known for his translations of Ukrainian and Russian literature and for his academic work in Slavic studies.

Early life and education Naydan was born in 1952. He is the son of Ukrainian immigrants who were forced laborers during World War II. Herstories: An Anthology of New Ukrainian Women Prose Writers. Edited and co-translated by Michael M. Naydan. Glagoslav Publishers, 2014. A review in East/West Journal of Ukrainian Studies noted that the anthology "achieves its ambitious objectives quite successfully." Abram Terz (Andrei Sinyavsky). Strolls with Pushkin and Journey to the River Black. Co-translated with Slava Yastremski, Olha Tytarenko, Maria Badanova. Columbia University Press, 2016. A review in the Slavic and East European Journal praised the translation for its "accuracy and creativity." Yuri Andrukhovych. My Final Territory: Selected Essays. Co-translated with Mark Andryczyk. University of Toronto Press, 2018. (Winner of the 2018 AAUS Translation Prize) Maria Matios. Sweet Darusya: A Tale of Two Villages. Co-translated with Olha Tytarenko. Spuyten Duyvil, 2019. A Slavic Review article described it as a "superb translation" that captures the novel's "stylistic richness." Serhii Rudenko. Zelensky: A Biography. Co-translated with Alla Perminova. Polity Press, 2022.

Books authored Seven Signs of the Lion (novel). Glagoslav Publishers, 2016. (Translated into Ukrainian in 2017). George S. N. Luckyj Ukrainian Literature Translation Prize (2013): Awarded by the Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies. AAUS Translation Prize: Awarded multiple times by the American Association for Ukrainian Studies. Wins include 2005 for Yuri Andrukhovych's Perverzion and 2018 for Andrukhovych's My Final Territory.