Lina Kostenko
Author Profiles

About the Author:

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Lina Kostenko
Kyiv, Ukraine

Lina Vasylivna Kostenko (Ukrainian: Ліна Василівна Костенко; born 19 March 1930 is a Ukrainian poet, journalist, writer, publisher, and former Soviet dissident. A founder and leading representative of the Sixtiers poetry movement, Kostenko has been described as one of Ukraine’s foremost poets and credited with reviving Ukrainian-language lyric poetry. Read more about Lina Kostenko here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Kostenko

Bookshelf
100 pms war
by Julia Nemirovskaya, editor

This excellent anthology, compiled and edited by Julia Nemirovskaya, showcases poems by Russian (and Russian-speaking) poets who express their absolute rejection of Russia’s war against Ukraine.

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by Tsipi Keller

Solitary Pleasures is a collection of short stories by Tsipi Keller.

1. Dislocation
by Julia Nemirovskaya and Anna Krushelnitskaya, editors

This collection focuses on the war between Russia and Ukraine as seen by Russophone poets from all over the world.

700x500 Picture Fiour Centuries
by Ilya Perelmuter (editor)

Launched in 2012, “Four Centuries” is an international electronic magazine of Russian poetry in translation.

Videos
Three Questions. A Documentary by Vita Shtivelman
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Poetry Reading in Honor of Brodsky’s 81st Birthday
Length: 1:35:40