aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] October 19 - A Torba of Cool: Ukrainian Slang Today -Svitlana Pyrkalo @ Columbia

[ma2634@columbia.edu]

Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute for

"A Torba of Cool: Ukrainian Slang Today"

a presentation on language, literature and journalism in today’s  
Ukraine by writer and journalist

SVITLANA PYRKALO

Wednesday, October 19, 2011
7:00pm
Harriman Atrium, International Affairs Building

Ms. Pyrkalo is a London-based Ukrainian writer and journalist. She  
works for the BBC Ukrainian service and presents the Friday  
interactive evening programme in Ukrainian from London. She is also  
the administrator of the BBC Ukrainian annual book prize.

In 1998, she compiled and published The First Dictionary of Ukrainian  
Slang, consisting of 2700 entries. In 1999 her first short novel,  
Green Margarita, was awarded 2nd place in a Smoloskyp publishers  
contest for young writers.

This event is free and open to the public.

For more information contact Dr. Mark Andryczyk at (212) 854-4697 or  
ma2634@columbia.edu.