Join the Danylo Husar-Struk Programme in Ukrainian Literature of the Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies for an International symposium dedicated to the work of Oksana Lutsyshyna, followed by her poetry and prose readings. The event will feature two round tables of scholars and translators.  

Participants: Tamara Hundorova, Maxim Tarnawsky, Vitaly Chernetsky, Taras Koznarsky, Olena Jennings, and Nina Murray (translator of Ivan and Phoebe, Deep Vellum, 2022). 

Organizer and moderator: Alex Averbuch 

Oksana Lutsyshyna is the 2021 laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize in Literature, awarded for her novel Ivan and Phoebe (2019). The novel has also been awarded the UNESCO Lviv City of Literature Award (2020). Lutsyshyna (b. 1974) is an award-winning writer, poet, translator, PEN Ukraine member, and literary scholar. She is the author of three novels, a collection of short stories, and five books of poetry, all but one published in Ukraine. Her latest poetry collection, Persephone Blues, was published in English translation in 2019 by the Boston-based publisher Arrowsmith. Oksana Lutsyshyna holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Georgia, and is currently a lecturer in Ukrainian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. 

The event is free and open to the public. The round tables will be conducted in English, and the readings and Q & A in Ukrainian and English.