Poland

She was born in  Szczebrzeszynn southeastern Poland in Lublin Voivodeship. She lives in Warsaw. She studied Polish Philology in the University of Warsaw, where she works now as specialist in educational methods and teacher of Polish for foreigners.

She is the author of the books: “Wiersze Zdyszane” (Zamość 2000), “Zapisz Zmiany” (Warszawa 2004) and “Czary and Mary” (web version: www.czary-i-mary.pl ).

Aneta published anthology of translated poems of Nazar Gonchar “Gdybym” (Warszawa, 2007). She also translates poems of Vasyl Goloborodko, Oksana Zabuzhko, Yuriy Izdryk, Ivan Luchuk, Marianna Kiyanovska, Maryana Savka, Mariya Shun, Kateryna Haddad, Bogdana Matiyash, Bogdan Oleg-Gorobchuk, Andriy Lubka.

She is going to publish her author anthology “Cząstki pomarańczy”, “Nowa poezja ukraińska” and poetry collection “Autoportret z Klepsydrą. Ostatnie Wiersze Nazara Honczara Napisane Przez Anetę Kamińską”.

Blogs: www.wszczebrzeszynie.blog.pl

www.marszrutka.blog.pl

Ukraine

Pavlo was born in 1984 in Lutsk. He studied at the Department of Oriental Studies at the Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University.

Author of poetry books:

“Natschenebo” (“Smoloskyp”, Kyiv, 2005);

“Tsilodobovo” (with O. Kotsarev and B. Horobchuk) (“Fact”, Kyiv, 2007);

“Kayfolohiya” (“Fact “, Kyiv , 2010).

Laureate of the competitions:

“Nepovtornist” (2003), “Smoloskyp” (2004), “Molode Vyno” (2005), “Neosfera” (2006), “Pidkova Pegasa” (2006), “Literaturnyi Olymp” (2007), “Prosto Tak” (2008), “Pryvitannya Zhyttya” (2009), of the web-site slonyk.com competition (2010).

Winner of the ten literary slams:

slam at the festival “ZEX” (2006), Lviv Slam (2008), the Byelorussian-Ukrainian Slam (2008), slam in the TV-show “Shuster Live” (2008), German-Ukrainian Slam (2009), Kyiv literary Slam (2009 ), slam in the “Avenue” (2009), Kiev Higher League Slam (2010), etc; finalist of the First Ukrainian-Russian Slam (2007), Irpin (2006) and Khmelnitsky (2007) slams etc.

Pavlo Korobchuk’s works were published in periodicals: “Afisha”, “Politics and Culture,”Sho”, “Suchastnist”, “Kuryer Krivbasu”, “Kievska Rus”, “Nova Proza”, “Radar”, “Prosto Neba”, “Svyatyi Volodymyr “, etc.

Anthologies: “2 tonny”, anthologie of the II and IV International Festival in Lviv, Kharkiv Barricade-2, anthology of the English “suchukr” poetry, etc.

His literary and journalistic works regularly appear on websites lyrikline.org, bukvoid.com.ua, tochka.org.ua, slonyk.com, kultrevansh.com.

Pavlo is a participant of the literary events and festivals all over Ukraine, as well as in Berlin, Moscow and Minsk. He is a guest of the writer’s fund Literaturwerkstatt Berlin.

His works were translated into English, German, Polish, Lithuanian, Belarusian and Russian languages.

moderator of “Walking with poets”, “Stage of young poets” and books presentations

Ukraine

Andriy Liubka was born in 1987.

He is the author of the “Eight Months of Schizophrenia” (2007) and “Terrorism” (2008) poetry collections. His poems were published in such magazines as: “Kiyvska Russ”, “SHO”, “Vsesvit”, “Potyag -76″, and such almanacs as: “Dzhynsove Pokolinnya”, “Karpatska Salamandra”, “Korzo”, “Kuryer Kryvbasu” and others.

Andriy participates in many Ukrainian and European literary events and festivals.

2007 – a winner of “Debut” literary prize.

Some of his works are translated into Hungarian, Czech, Portuguese, German, Russian and Polish.

Andriy Liubka lives and works in Uzhhorod.

Ukraine

Taras was born on January 15, 1988 in Kiev.

He studies Romance and German philology at the Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University.

His works were published in Ukrainian literary periodicals and artistic web- resources: “Chas’nyk”,”Dzerkalo”, collection of Rudyard Kipling’s translations “Mezhychassya”.

He is the author of ideas and compiler of the anthology “Snovydy”.

Taras Malkovych lives in Kiev.

Ukraine

Ostap Nozhak was born on April 28, 1983 in Chortkiv Ternopil region. Full name given at baptism – Ostap Yuri Miroslav.

He graduated from the Shashkevych High school in Chortkiv (2000), the Chernivtsi National Yurii Fedkovych University (2005, Master of Ukrainian Philology). He teaches at the Department of Journalism at Chernivtsi National Yurii Fedkovych University. Ostap is writing a PhD thesis on the history of publishing.

He is the author of the poetry collection “Kohayuchy Serp I Molot Postmodernizmu” (2003), of the numerous publications of poetry, prose, publicism in the pages of the Ukrainian and foreign periodicals, in the online journals and collective collections (Ukraine, Brazil, Hungary). He was a participant and winner of “Molode Vyno” (Kyiv, 2003), of the Vadim Koval Literary Competition (Chernivtsi, 2002, 2003). His works were translated into Portuguese, Hungarian, Byelorussian. Ostap translates from Polish, English, Hungarian, Latin.

He is engaged in photography (participated in collective exhibitions – 2006 and 2009, personal exhibitions – 2007 and 2008), genealogy and foreign languages. Ostap Nozhak  is founder and editor of the family newspaper “Zharynka” (self-publishing house).

Switzerland

Born:                          27. 06. 1978 in Grenchen, Switzerland

Nationality:                Swiss

Education:                  University Basel, Freiburg Brsg. and Vienna: German Language and Literature, History of Art, Europaen Ethnologie 2000-2006;

PhD in German Literature (2011).

Works now as:            text-editor, teacher, tour guide, art guide, fotographer and poet

Address:                     Claragraben 155, 4057 Basel/Switzerland

Tel.:                            +41 (0)61 681 99 29/ 79 281 97 23

Email:                         judithschifferle@hotmail.com

www.fotojudita.ch

Publications

Scientific Publications

“Das Währende auf den Trümmern der Vergänglichkeit”. Eine phänomenologische Untersuchung der Selbstbilder im Werk von Moses Rosenkranz. (coming soon).

Moses Rosenkranz: Wiederentdeckung eines Dichters aus der Bukowina. Tagungsbeitrag. Estudios filologicos alemanes. Vol. 15, Sevilla 2008.

Fotokatalog der UBS Art Collection, 2006. Fünf Beiträge zu Olafur Eliasson, Christopher Muller, Luigi Ghirri, Jean Luis Garnell und Hiroyuki Masuyama.

Zwei Autorinnen schauen fern. Herta Müller und Aglaja Veteranyi, zwei Autorinnen im Vergleich, Referatsbeitrag am Kongress “Das Verbindende der Kulturen” vom 7.-9. 11. 2003, in: Trans Nr. 15, 2003.

Siehe auch: www.inst.at/kulturen/index.htm

Unter gleichem Titel erschienen auch in der: Zeitschrift der Germanisten Rumäniens, 2003.

Recensions

Taras Prochas’ko: Daraus lassen sich ein paar Erzählungen machen. Erscheint in Variations, 2009/17.

Die Buche. Eine Anthologie deutschsprachiger Judendichtung aus der Bukowina.

Zusammengestellt von Alfred Margul-Sperber. Aus dem Nachlass herausgegeben von George Guțu, Peter Motzan und Stefan Sienerth.

Erscheint demnächst, in: Variations 2010/18.

Serhij Osatschuk/Oleg Ljubkiwskij: Homo czernoviciensis. Athropolgia urbana. Druk Art: Czernowitz, 2008. (coming soon: Bulletin SGV, Basel 2011)

Boris Chersonskij: Familienarchiv, Edition Zwei, 2010. (coming soon: variations 2011)

Others

Im Erwarten der Zeit. Nachdenken über ein Stück Theater. Nachwort zu: “Die Gefallenen” von Reto Zingg. Littera Autoren Verlag, Zürich, 2010.

Literarische Übersetzung aus dem Russischen (“Yevrejskoje Schastye”): Igor Livant: Das jüdische Glück. (unveröffentlicht)

– Auszug erschienen in: Variations, Literaturzeitschrift der Universität Zürich. translatio, 16/2008.

Deutsche Übersetzung und Lektorat: Sammlung deutscher Volkslieder in Transkarpatien (Westukraine): Karpaty-Verlag, Uzhgorod 2007.

Literaturdidaktisches Handbuch deutschsprachiger Gegenwartsliteratur, in Zusammenarbeit mit Studierenden der Universitäten Uzhgorod (UA) und Brasov (RO). Schwabe, Basel, 2009. (erschienen ohne ISBN)

Journalistische Artikel erschienen bei der Basler Zeitung und Gezetera, die unabhängigen StudentInnenzeituung der Universität Basel. (www.gezetera.ch)

Mythos der Zukunft – “Oder” – die Heimat im Dazwischen, eine deutsch-polnische Begegnung mit Olga Tokarczuk und Uwe Rada, in: MitOst-Magazin, Spezial-Festivalausgabe, Januar 2006.

Kein Eis im Cola-Becher – Ein Monat Irkutsk im Winter, in: MitOst-Magazin, Nr. 13, Mai 2004.

www.mitost.de

“Hier darf man alles!”, zweisprachiger (deutsch-russisch) Artikel über die aktuelle Künstlerszene in Moskau, in: Vostotschnaja, Zweisprachige Zeitschrift für Kontakte mit Osteuropa, Nr. 1/2003.

Literarische Arbeiten

Literaturcafé Czernowitz: Lecture/Lesung aus dem unveröffentlichten Band: “Über der Treppe”, 13.10. 2010; Hommage an den Zürcher Verleger Curt Zimmermann (Littera Autoren Verlag). Deutsche, französische, russische und ukrainische Poems/Gedichte unter Leitung von Oleg Ljubkiwskij; Moderation: Sashko Horskij, Regionalfernsehen Czernowitz.

Stufen: Drei Gedichte, in: Variations 18, Literaturzeitschrift der Universität Zürich. Peter Lang, Zürich 2010.

Unveröffentlicht: “Über der Treppe”. Fotografischer Lyrikband.

(Littera Autoren Verlag, Zürich 2010)

New conceptualisation (2011) together with Selnich Vivas Hurtado (Medellin, Columbia) and Radu Alexandru Miron, Berlin.

Ukraine

Grygoryi Semenchuk was born in 1991 in Khmelnytsky. He is the organizer of the numerous slams and poetry events in Khmelnitsky (2005-2007 year). Grygoryi  is the coordinator of the literary project “West Front of Young Poetry” (with O. Vaskiv) (2007-2008).

He is the columnist, literary coordinator of Lviv socio-cultural periodical “Prosto Neba”, chief coordinator of the International Literary Festival within the framework of the Publishers Forum in Lviv (2009, 2010). Together with Yuri Izdryk he established the multimedia project “DrumTyAtr”.

Grygoryi Semenchuk participated in the numerous art festivals in Ukraine and abroad: “LitTer”, “Pid Znakom Vodiliya”, “Ekle-2″, “Nova Abetka”, “Kievska Barykada”, “Den Nezalezhnosti Z Makhno”, “Kievski Lavry”, “Fortmisiya”, “Potyag Do Yaremche”, “Porto-Franco”, “Art-Pole”, “Biennale Poetiv U Moscvi – 2009″, “Rozkuttya”, “Bereznevi Koty”.

His separate publications appeared in the anthology “LyaLyaK” (LA “Piramida”, Lviv. 2010), in the almanac of the International Literary Festival (Lviv. 2009, 2010) and many different magazines and periodicals including “Prosto Neba”, “Tygel Kultury”.

Grygoryi’s poems were translated into Russian, Polish, German, French and Byelorussian languages.

Ukraine

Iryna Skrypnyk was born in 1986.

She is the author of published poetry collection “Zagublene Sontse” (2005) and of two unpublished – “Khvylyna Do Oseni” (2008 – 2009) and “Sorok Dniv Pusteli” (2010-2011). Her works were published in many newspapers and literary sites.

Iryna is a graduate student at the Institute of Literature of NAS of Ukraine (Department of the Historical Linguistics). She says that she is a nekroman, that’s why examines only the dead writers. She writes the PhD thesis by the texts of B.I. Antonych and B. Schulz. She also explores the Polish-Ukrainian artistic and literary connections of the interwar times.

Ukraine

Yulia Stahivska was born on December 3, 1985 in Zhitomir. She studied at the art school, at the Ostrog and the Kievo-Mohylyanska Academy.

She is the author of the poetry book “Chervoni Cholovichky” (2009).  Yulia was the laureate of the literary competitions “Smoloskyp”, “Molode Vyno” and others.

She is the grant-aided student of the International House of Writer and Translator in Ventspils (Latvia, 2010).

Yulia’s texts were published in the anthologies “Dvi Tonny”, “Syla Malogo”, “Snovydy”, in the magazines “SHO”, “Kurier Kryvbasu” and in the other publications.

She lives in Kiev.