Ostap Slyvynsky

Ostap Slyvynsky (born October 14, 1978) is a Ukrainian poet, essayist, translator, literary critic, and academic. He is the author of several collections of poetry and was a recipient of Ukrainian and international literary awards. He is also noted for translating several works of fiction from other languages into Ukrainian.

Biography Slyvynsky was born in Lviv, Ukraine. He completed his doctorate degree in 2007 at the Institute of Slav Language and Literature at the University of Lviv. His thesis, The Phenomenon of Silence, analyzed the works of Bulgarian writers from the 1960s to the 1990s. He also edited the literary magazine, Radar. He also organized the institution's hosting of the International Literature Festival in the years 2006 and 2007.

Poetry

Sacrifice of Big Fish, (Lviv, 1998) Midday Line, (Khmelnyts'ky-Kyiv, 2004) Ball in the Darkness (Kyiv, 2008) Driven by Fire (2009) Adam, (Chernivtsi, 2012) The Winter King, (Lviv, 2018)

Translations

Running Fire by Bohdan Zadura, (Wrocław, 2009). Sand and Wine by Valéria Juríčková, (Brno, 2015). Orpheus by Stanislav Belsky, (Dnipro, 2017)

Anthologies The Frontier: 28 Contemporary Ukrainian Poets. An Anthology, translated by Anatoly Kudryavitsky. London: Glagoslav Publications, 2017.