Iryna Shuvalova | |
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Ірина Леонідівна Шувалова | |
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| Born | 1986 |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, Translator, Scholar |
Iryna Shuvalova ( Ukrainian: Ірина Леонідівна Шувалова; born 1986) is a Ukrainian poet, translator and scholar.
Early life and education
Iryna Shuvalova was born in 1986 in Kyiv. [1] She studied at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. [2] In 2014, she completed MA in Comparative literature at Dartmouth College, followed by a PhD in 2020 in Slavonic studies at the University of Cambridge [1] [3] on the topic of songs of the Russo-Ukrainian War created by affected local communities. [2] [4] At Dartmouth she was a recipient of a Fulbright scholarship, while at Cambridge she gained a Gates Cambridge Scholarship and taught Ukrainian. [1]
Career
Shuvalova debuted in 2011 with her poetry book Ran. [5] Her fourth book, the bilingual publication Pray to the Empty Wells was strongly influenced by Ukrainian folk culture and nature. [4] Her poems have appeared in various anthologies and have been translated into nine languages. [1] In 2019, she was a coeditor of 120 pages of "Sodom": the first anthology of queer literature published in Ukraine. [1] [2]
She works as a translator from English into Ukrainian [1] and from Ukrainian and Russian into English. [4] Shuvalova has translated, among others, Life of Pi by Yann Martel (2016) and Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur (2019). [1] [2] Her translations into English have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation and Words Without Borders. [4]
Shuvalova has received a number of awards for her own work as well as translation, including the first prize in the Smoloskyp Literary Competition in 2010 [1] [4] and the Joseph Brodsky/Stephen Spender Prize [1] [2] [5] for translating Sergei Chegra's poem The Prayer of the Touch. [5]
Shuvalova is a member of PEN Ukraine [2] and in 2017 became an expert on Ukrainian translations for the English PEN. [1]
Publications
- Ran [1] [4]
- Os [1] [4]
- Az [1] [4]
- Pray to the Empty Wells - bilingual publication [1] [4]
- Stoneorchardwoods [3]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Shuvalova Iryna". PEN Ukraine. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
- ^ a b c d e f "Iryna Shuvalova". Gates Cambridge. 2020-06-25. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
- ^ a b ""I pretend death doesn't exist." New Poetry From Ukraine by Iryna Shuvalova". Literary Hub. 2022-03-24. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Iryna Shuvalova '14 Authors Poetry Collection". Comparative Literature Program, Dartmouth. 2021-02-05. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
- ^ a b c "Iryna Shuvalova". Words Without Borders. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
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