Ihor Pavlyuk (sometimes spelled as Ihor Pawlyuk, Igor Pavlyk, Igor Pavluk; Ukrainian: І́гор Зино́війович Павлю́к, Russian: Игорь Зиновьевич Павлюк, born 1 January 1967 in Rozhysche Raion, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian writer, translator and research worker.[1] Named People's Poet of Ukraine in 2020.[2]
He is the winner of a 2013 English PEN Award,[3][4] and the winner of the Switzerland Literary Prize 2021.[5][6]
He also holds a doctorate in Social Communication.[7]
Ihor Pavlyuk is a member of the English PEN and member of the European Society of Authors.
Life and career
Ihor Pavlyuk was born in the Volyn region on January 1, 1967. His mother died ten days after giving birth to him. He was raised by his grandfather and grandmother on his mother's side, both of whom were migrant peasants (Operation Vistula) from the Helm region (now Poland). Ihor Pavlyuk's family on his father's side, also from Volyn, was repressed for participating in the national liberation struggle, sent to a special settlement at Kiselyovsk in 1947 and rehabilitated in 1991.[8][9]
Works of Ihor Pavlyuk have been translated into Russian, Belarusian, Polish, English, French, Chinese, Latvian, Bulgarian, Japanese, Italian,[20][21] and other languages and published in such magazines as "Acumen",[22] "The Apple Valley Review" (Volume 7, Number 2 (Fall 2012),[23] "Muddy River Poetry Review",[24]"Asymptote",[25] "Gold Dust" (Issue 23), "The Adirondack Review", "The Recusant",[26] "Metamorphoses", "Eurasia Review", "The world poets quarterly", "The Guardian",[27] "Critical Muslim" (2022),[28] "Spillwords press" (2023),[29] "Of Poets & Poetry" (2023),[30]Chinese magazines "Fleurs des lettres", «Foreign literature and art (外國文學藝術)»,[31] journal of Ukrainian poetry in English, Hindi and Ukrainian language “Uyava Chronicle” (A Trilingual Journal of Ukrainian Poetry)[32] and many others.
Ihor Pavlyuk is the protagonist of the film "Between Bug and God"[33] and film "Voice".[34]
The work of Ihor Pavlyuk is included in the official school curriculum with Ukrainian literature.[35]
The book of Ihor Pavlyuk "A Flight over the Black Sea" became the winning book within Writers in Translation competition by English PEN club.[36]Academia.edu has included book "A Flight over the Black Sea" in the authoritative list “The Greatest Great Books List Ever”.[37]
Ihor Pavlyuk is married. His wife Lyudmyla Pavlyuk (Ukrainian: Павлюк Людмила Степанівна) is Associate Professor at Department of Journalism of Lviv University.[39] They have two daughters and a grandson.
A Flight over the Black Sea (London, Waterloo Press), (Політ над Чорним морем), 2014 (poems by Ihor Pavlyuk in English. Translated from Ukrainian by Stephen Komarnyckyj, foreword to a book written recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature Mo Yan and Naomi Foyle, Steve Komarnyckyj, Dmytro Drozdovskyi),[40]ISBN978-1-906742-70-6
Magma of Polissya (Magma polésien: poèmes / Traduction française par Dmytro Tchystiak et Athanase Vantchev de Thracy. Rouen, Christophe Chmomant éditeur, 2015.). (The book of poetry in French, Rouen), ISBN978-2-84962-319-0
Arthania: Selected Poems (United States, Dorrance Publishing Company), (Arthania), 2020 (poems by Ihor Pavlyuk in English. Translated from Ukrainian by Yurii Lazirko, editors: Hilary Sheers, Hanna Kosiv.[42][43][44][45] The painting «The Sun» by Andrei Kotzyk was used to illustrate the cover of this book. Foreword to a book written recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature Mo Yan,[46]ISBN978-1647023065
Spas (The Saviour): a book of spiritual lyrics (Спас: книга духовної лірики), 2021, ISBN978-966-441-639-6
Cossack Mamay Dance: Poems of 2017-2022 (Танець Мамая: Вірші 2017-2022 років), 2023,[47]ISBN978-966-986-545-8
Prose
Biography of the tree of tribe of poets (Біографія дерева племені поетів), 2003, ISBN966-665-053-3
Unity with God. Notes of the poet Ihor Pavlyuk: The first book (Богоєднання. Записки поета Ігоря Павлюка: Книга перша), 2023,[48]ISBN978-966-441-755-3
Drama
The Medium. History of Ukraine in dramatic poem (Бут. Історія України у драматичних поемах), 2024, ISBN978-966-372-910-7
Monographs
Writer – Power – Press: historical and typological analysis (Митець – Влада – Преса: історико-типологічний аналіз), 1997, ISBN966-517-033-3
Diagnostics and prognosis of lie: digressions in the theory of communication (Діагностика і прогностика брехні: екскурси в теорію комунікації), 2003, ISBN966-665-129-7
Stories of emotions: About texts and life texts of modern writers (Історії емоцій: Про тексти та життєтексти сучасних літераторів. – Львів, Світ, 2021. – 352 с.) ISBN978-966-914-163-7.
Intimate breath of the era. Articles, interviews (2018—2021). — Volume 4. (Library of the magazine "Golden Pectoral") (Інтимне дихання епохи. Статті, інтерв'ю (2018—2021 рр.). — Том 4.), 2022, ISBN978-617-7578-18-4.
Book for children
The Flying Cauldron (Літаючий казан: п’єса), 2003, ISBN966-7964-14-0
Flute: Poems for Schoolchildren ("School Library") (Сопілка: вірші для школярів) («Шкільна бібліотека»), 2017, ISBN978-966-441-495-8.