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She received the [[Ivan Franko]] Literary award in 1957, 1979, 1982 and 1990, the Blahovist award 2000. She actively propagates Ukrainian culture and language. In 2008, Vovk received Ukrainian state award |
She received the [[Ivan Franko]] Literary award in 1957, 1979, 1982 and 1990, the Blahovist award 2000. She actively propagates Ukrainian culture and language. In 2008, Vovk received Ukrainian state award [[Shevchenko National Prize]]. |
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== Sources == |
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Vira Ostapivna Selianska (Template:Lang-uk), pen name Vira Vovk (Template:Lang-uk), (born 1926, Boryslav) is a Ukrainian-language writer, critic and translator living in Brazil. She writes in Ukrainian, German and Portuguese.
Biography
Born in Boryslav in 1926, she grew up in the Hutsul region in the town of Kuty (at that time on the Polish-Romanian border). Vira Vovk's secondary education was completed in Lviv and Dresden. She studied Germanics, music history and comparative literature at the University of Tübingen. In 1945, she emigrated with her mother to Portugal and in 1949, further to Brazil. She went to Rio de Janeiro where she completed her university studies. Post graduate studies were completed at Columbia University (New York City) and Munich University.
Vovk received a PhD. Professor of German literature at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. Vovk has created ten collections of poetry, ten novels, and eleven plays and has made numerous translations of Western writers into Ukrainian and Ukrainian writers into Portuguese.
Awards and achievements
She received the Ivan Franko Literary award in 1957, 1979, 1982 and 1990, the Blahovist award 2000. She actively propagates Ukrainian culture and language. In 2008, Vovk received Ukrainian state award Shevchenko National Prize.
Sources
- Viktoriia Kostiuchenko, Віра Вовк: Читачі в Бразилії і Португалії мають одне джерело, то є мої видання (Vera Wolf: Readers in Brazil and Portugal have one source, that is my publications), Ukraina Moloda Newspaper, April 2008, in Ukrainian.
- Літературні вечори в Українському Інституті Модерного Мистецтва Чикаго, 1973—2006 // Укладачі: Віра Боднарук, Володимир Білецький. — Донецьк: Український культурологічний центр, 2006. — 140 с.
- Virtual library of Ukrainian poetry by the New York group.
- Liudmyla Taran, Українка з Бразилії (A Ukrainian from Brazil), Den, 13.06.2001
- Vira Vovk, Карнавал. Оповідання до картин Юрія Соловія (Carnival. Narratives to paintings of Yurii Solovii). Rio de Janeiro, 1986.
- 1926 births
- Living people
- Brazilian non-fiction writers
- Ukrainian emigrants to Brazil
- Ukrainian women writers
- Ukrainian women poets
- People from Boryslav
- People from Lwów Voivodeship
- Ukrainian–Portuguese translators
- 20th-century translators
- 20th-century Brazilian women writers
- Ukrainian-language writers
- 20th-century pseudonymous writers
- Pseudonymous women writers