Ostap Slyvynsky is a Ukrainian poet, translator, essayist, and scholar. He is a recipient of the Hubert Burda Prize for young poets from Eastern Europe (2009) and the Kovaliv Fund Prize (2013). In 2022, he was elected the Vice President of PEN Ukraine.
He will read from two of his books recently published in English translation by Lost Horse Press, the poetry collection “Winter King” (2023) and “A Ukrainian Dictionary of War” (2024), a documentary book based on witness testimony of the Russian aggression against Ukraine.
This event is part of Ostap Slyvynsky’s tour of US campuses, during which he will promote two of his books that recently came out in English: the poetry collection Winter King (https://losthorsepress.org/catalog/winter-king/) and A Ukrainian Dictionary of War (https://losthorsepress.org/catalog/a-ukrainian-dictionary-of-war/), a documentary book based on witness testimony of the Russian aggression against Ukraine.
This event is sponsored by the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+.