aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] [HUSI 2008] LITERARY EVENING: Volodymyr Dibrova,"Andrew's Way" - 7-9 p.m., Thurs., July 24

["Seegel, Steven" <Steven.Seegel@worcester.edu>]

**** HARVARD UKRAINIAN SUMMER INSTITUTE EVENT **** 

 

On Thursday, July 24, 2008, the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute is pleased to sponsor a literary evening and book talk with Volodymyr Dibrova, Preceptor in Ukrainian at Harvard University's Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, writer-in-residence at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, and a long-time teacher of Advanced Ukrainian in the annual HUSI summer program.   

 

Volodymyr Dibrova

"Andrew's Way" (Andrijivs'kyj uzviz, Fact, Kyiv, 2007)  

 

Thursday, July 24, 2008 

7:00-9:00 PM

Thompson Room 

Barker Center, Room 110

Harvard University

12 Quincy Street 

Cambridge, MA 02143

 
* Readings will be in Ukrainian and English, and a reception will follow.  
* For a map of the Harvard campus: http://map.harvard.edu/
 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR  
Volodymyr Dibrova is an author of creative fiction, translator, and a leading figure in contemporary Ukrainian literature.  His oeuvre includes a collection of short stories, Texts With and Without Titles (Molod', Kyiv, 1990), Pisni Bitlz (Beatles Songbook, Alternatyva, Kyiv, 1991), Zbihovys'ka (Get-togethers, Krytyka, Kyiv, 1999), a prose collection and a play Vybhane (Kollekted, Krytyka, Kyiv, 2002), a collection of plays Dovkola stolu (Around the Table, Fact, Kyiv, 2005), and the novel Peltse, Pentameron (Northwestern University Press, 1996).

On December 14, 2007, the Ukrainian service of the British Broadcasting Corporation announced that Volodymyr Dibrova was the winner of the third annual BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year prize for his novel, Andrijivs'kyj uzviz (Andrew's Way, Fact, Kyiv, 2007).  

For a transcript of the BBC interview with the author, and information on ordering the book, please see: http://www.huri.harvard.edu/na/2007_12_14_dibrova_au_bbc.html

 
Dr. Steven Seegel
Director, 2008 Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute
Assistant Professor of History, Worcester State College
Harvard University
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
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