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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.

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Got higher education at the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and at the department of Geography at the Chernivtsi National Yuri Fedkovych University.

Winner of the contest of young authors “Chysti Rosy”.

2005 – poetry collection “Talk to an angel”.

2011 – co-authorof the photo-poetical book “TimeTrain: Chernowitz-Prag-Wien”. The book project was presented in Chernivtsi (Ukraine), Lviv (Ukraine), Klagenfurt (Austria). Presentations are planned for Leipzig (Germany), Berlin (Germany), Leukerbad (Swittzerland), Prague (Czech Republic) and Vienna (Austria).

Poetical texts published in the almanac “Pershi Lastivky”, “Bukovyna Journal”,  “RADAR” magazine, Almanach of Poetry and Translations of the II International Festival MERIDIAN CZERNOWITZ” and online-magazine  Zeitzug.com.

Received “Future Leader’s Exchange Program” scholarship in 2004-2005 (Minot, ND, USA) and a scholarship of the DAAD (Munich, Germany).

Participant of the XXI International Poetry Festival in Medellin (Colombia, 2011), II International Poetry Festival MERIDIAN CZERNOWITZ (Chernivtsi, Ukraine, 2011) and the 6^th International Poetry Festival in  Lviv (Ukraine, 2011).

Iryna’s poetical texts are translated into English, German, Polish and Spanish.

At the time she is teaching English at the Chernivtsi National Yuri Fedkovych University and doing a research in Linguistics. Executive director of the Chernivtsi regional public organization “Cultural Capital”, which works in the sphere of cultural management and an International Poetry Festival MERIDIAN CZERNOWITZ.

Photo by Vagelis Bekas

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Ukraine/the Great Britain

“I was born in Saratov on Volga in 1948, grew up in Chernivtsi. My father was a journalist, so writing for me was an everyday practice. If my farther had been a carpenter I would have enjoyed working with wood, its structure, its smell and its warmth. My favorite language “wood” is poetry. Even working with radio sounds, a sort of “air carving” for me, I am still a poet saying nothing of my being a prosaic and essay writer. Today, looking back, it’s better understood which materials I have been working with all my life: with air, soil, moisture and, of course, language. Everything else is written in books”.

Claudia Dathe (1971), a translator by profession, studied Russian and Polish languages in Leipzig, Pyatigorsk and Kraków Universities. From 1997 to 2004 she worked as a lecturer in the German Academic Exchange Service in Kazakhstan and Ukraine. In addition to practical and theoretical studies on translation, she conducted courses for raising efficiency for the future literary translators out of the University.

While living in Kiev Ms. Dathe learned Ukrainian language and started her own translation activities. After her return to Germany Claudia began working as translator of Russian and Ukrainian languages and she continues to conduct seminars for translators. Since 2009 she has been working in Tübingen University as project coordinator for literary translation. She translated into German many Ukrainian composers such as Sergiy Zhadan, Alexander Irvanets, Tanya Malyarchuk and Sofia Andruchovych.

She lives and works in Jena.

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Ukraine

Mark Belorusets was born in 1943. Since 1978 has published translated works of Paul Celan, Robert Musil, Tomas Berngard, Gunter Eih, Georg Trakl, Gottfried Benn, Alexander Kluge, Hertha Kraftner, Kerstin Hensel, Antje Shtrubel, Herta Muller.

Collections:

“Zolotoye Secheniye. Austrian poetry XIX – XX centuries in russian translation”, Raduga, Moscow, 1988 (Paul Celan);

“Lira Semi Gorodov. Poems”, Moscow, 1992 (Elisabeth Aksman, Bernd Kolf);

К.G. Jung “Vospominaniya, sny, razmyshleniya”, AirLand, Kyiv, 1994 (Septem Sermones ad Mortuos);

“Georg Trakl. Poems. Prose. Letters”, Symposium, Saint-Petersburg, 2000;

“Paul Celan. Materialy, issledovaniya, vospominaniya”, Gesharim, Moscow-Jerusalem, 2004 (Article “Celan and Mandelshtam. Dialogs”).

Separate books:

Paul Celan “Stihotvoreniya”, Gamayun, Kyiv (1998);

Julian Shutting “Popytka chteniya. Stihotvoreniya” Gamayun, Kyiv (2000);

Manes Sperber “Naprasnoye predosterezheniye”, Gamayun, Кyiv (2002);

Paul Celan “Poems. Prose. Latters”, Ad marginem, Мoscow (together with Tetiana Baskakova, 2008).

Rewards:

Reward of Austrian Republic for translators (1998);

Reward of Andriy Bilyy, Saint Petersburg (2008);

Ministry of Education, Culture and Austrian Republic Culture reward for translations (2010).

Today Mark Belorusets lives and works in Kyiv.

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Ukraine

Khrystya Vengrynyuk (1987) – postgraduate student at the Chernivtsi National Yurii Fedkovych University.

She writes a PhD thesis in literary studies.

Khrystya is the author of two prosaic collections:

1. “Katarsys” (2005),

2. “Golyy NarKOTYK” (2006),

and of the poetic collection:

1. “Boh u Stini” (2008).

She is the co-author of the anthologies:

1. of the young Bukovinian writers “Pid Prostyradlom / Pit Prostyradla” (2006);

2. “Almanac” of The Fourth International Literary Festival within the framework of the 16^th International Book Fair “Publishers’ Forum” in Lviv (2009);

3. of the erotic art festival “Bereznevi Koty” (2010);

4. “Sny Ukrainskyh Pysmennykiv” (“Dreams of the Ukrainian Writers”) (2010);

5. of the festival “Meridian Czernowitz”.

Khrystya published her works in such periodicals as:

“Bukovynskyy Zhurnal” (2004, 2007),

“Kyiv Russ”(2008),

“Trohy Kultury” (2008),

“Tygiel kultury” (PL) (2010).

She is the organizer and participant of various literary and artistic events and the co-founder of the videopoetic group “Pharmakon”. Khrystya makes video and filmpoetry and prose. Her evenings of the video art were presented at various festivals, including the opening of subsidiary of the young organization “Ostannya Barykada” in Zaporizhya, at the “Mahnofest” in Gulyaypole, at the “Book Publishers’ Forum” in Lviv, at the “GOGOLFEST” in Kyiv, at the videopoetry festival for the countries from the near abroad “Pyataya Noga” within the framework of the Moscow Poetic Biennale 2009, at the International Festival of Mediapoetry “Ventylyator” in St. Petersburg, at the festival of erotic literature “Bereznevi Koty” in Uzhgorod, within the framework of the retrospective evening of the world videopoetry in Krasnoyarsk, at the literary and arts festival “Tekstura” in Kharkov, at the festival “Meridian Czernowitz” and many others.

Khrystya is a grant-aided student of the Polish Government programs for young scientists in the field of literary studies (2010, 2011).

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Petro Ryhlo is a specialist in literature, a translator. He is the Doctor of Philological Science, The professor at the Department of Foreign Literature and Theory of Literature at Chernivtsi National University. He is a member of the Association of the Ukrainian Writers. He is the author of the works in German and Austrian literature, of the German literature in Bukovina, of the numerous translations (P. Celan, Y. Zoyfer, I. von Rezzori, J. Burya, R. Auslander, M. Shperber, K. Lybomirski, I. Drozdovski, R. Flinker, etc.). He is the author of the anthology of German Literature of Bukovina.

coordinator of the video-poetry prize BUK

Ukraine

Kateryna Babkina was born in Ivano-Frankivsk in 1985.

Kateryna is the author of poetic and prosaic books: “St. Elmo`s fire” («Вогні святого Ельма») (Лілея-НВ, 2002), “Lilu After You” («Лілу після тебе») as well as poetic and prosaic publications in newspapers, almanacs and magazines, such as: “The Present Times” (“Сучасність”), “Thursday” («Четвер»), “Format” («Форма(р)т»), “Kyiv Russ” («Київська Русь»), “St. Volodymyr” («Святий Володимир»), “SHO” («ШО»), “Kryvbas Courier” («Кур’єр Кривбасу»).

Her video works took part in film and literary festivals in Kyiv, Lviv, Sumy, Lugansk, Moscow, Vilnius, Valencia and Cracow.

The perspective of the ukrainian videopoetry, nominee of the “Buk” prize 2010