Английская Википедия:Iryna Yevsa
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Iryna Oleksandrivna Yevsa (Шаблон:Lang-ru, Шаблон:Lang-uk) (born October 15, 1956) is a Russian-language Ukrainian poet and translator. She lives in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Biography
Yevsa was born into a military family in Kharkiv, Ukraine SSR. She studied in the philological faculty at the National University of Kharkiv and graduated from Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow in 1981.[1] Following her graduation, she worked at the Book Chamber of Ukraine from 1981-1986 and began working for the company Apis in 1988.[2] She has recently worked for the National University of Kharkiv.
First published as a poet in 1975, Yevsa also translates literature from Armenian, Georgian, Polish, and Ukrainian into Russian. Her own work has been translated into Ukrainian, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Georgian, Lithuanian, and Serbian.[1] She is a member of the National Writers' Union of Ukraine and PEN International.Шаблон:Citation needed
Works
Poetry collections
- 1976, Отзвук (Echo)
- 1978, Дыхание (Breath)
- 1985, Август (August)
- 1986, Сад (Garden)
- 1986, День седьмой (Day Seven)
- 1995, Изгнание из рая (Exile from Paradise)
- 1999, Наверное, снилось… (Probably Dreamed...)
- 2000, Лодка на фаянсе (Boat on Faience)
- 2015, Юго-Восток (South-East)
Translations and arrangements
With the subtitle, "Modern Poetic Version of Iryna Yevsa"
- Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / translated by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kholodkovskii
- Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri. / translated by Dmytry Dmytryevich Minaev
- Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, John Milton / translated by A. N. Shulgovskaya
- Rubaiyat, Omar Khayyam
- Short stories and poems, Edgar Allen Poe
- Works of Oscar Wilde
- Venus and Adonis, William Shakespeare
- Othello, William Shakespeare / interlinear notes by Pyotr Isaevich Weinberg
- The Rape of Lucrece, William Shakespeare
- Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare / interlinear notes by Apollon Aleksandrovich Grigoryev
- Hamlet, William Shakespeare / translated by Konstantin Konstantinovich
- King Lear, William Shakespeaere / translated by M. A. Kuzmina
- The Phoenix and the Turtle, William Shakespeare
- Orphic Hymns
- Song of Songs
- Psalms of David
In collaboration with A. K. Shaposhnikov
- Gathas, Zarathustra
- Selections from the work of Pythagoras
- The fragments of Sappho
- Selected fragments from the Seven Sages
- Book of the Dead
- Prophecies of Pythia and Sibyl
Awards
- 2000, named as a laureate for the International Foundation for the Memory of Boris Chichibabin[3]
- 2013, Paragraph anti-award in the category for "worst translation" criticizing her work translating out-of-copyright literary classics into Russian[4]
- 2015, Mykola Ushakov Prize for her work "Юго-Восток" ("South-East")Шаблон:Citation needed
- 2016, Russian Prize at the XIV Literary Festival Named after Maximilian Voloshin for her work "Юго-Восток" ("South-East")[5]
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