The Voices of Babyn Yar: A conversation with Marianna Kiyanovska
Schedule
Fri Sep 27 2024 at 04:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
2134 Kalorama Rd NW, Washington D.C., DC, United States, Washington, District of Columbia 20008 | Washington, DC
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Please join us for a literary evening with Marianna Kiyanovska, an award-winning Ukrainian writer and the author of a poetry collection, The Voices of Babyn Yar. The conversation will be moderated by Ms. Irena Chalupa, a journalist, translator, and community activist heading up the Washington, D.C. branch of theUkrainian National Women’s League of America.
In her poetry collection The Voices of Babyn Yar, the Award-winning Ukrainian poet Marianna Kiyanovska honors the victims of the Holocaust by writing their stories of horror, death, and survival in their own imagined voices. Artful and carefully intoned, The Voices of Babyn Yar convey the experiences of ordinary civilians going through events leading to the massacre at Kyiv’s Babyn Yar from a first-person perspective to an effect that is simultaneously immersive and estranging. While conceived as a tribute to the fallen, the book poses difficult questions about memory, responsibility, and commemoration of those who witnessed an evil that verges on the unspeakable.
About the author: Award-winning Ukrainian writer, translator, literary scholar, and public figure whose works have been translated into eighteen languages. She is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, prose, and literary translation. A winner of the Vilenica International Literary Festival and the CEI Fellowship (2007), she was also awarded the Gloria Artis Medal for Merit to Culture in Poland (2013). In 2020, she was recognized with the prestigious Taras Shevchenko National Prize in Literature for The Voices of Babyn Yar. She is the Laureate of the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Prize and was named the European Poet of Freedom (both in 2022). The English-language translation of The Voices of Babyn Yar has won the 2022 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work from the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the 2021–22 Translation Prize from the American Association for Ukrainian Studies (AAUS). This book was also shortlisted for the 2023 Best Literary Translation into English Prize from the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages (AATSEEL).
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2134 Kalorama Rd NW, Washington D.C., DC, United States, Washington, District of Columbia 20008Event Location & Nearby Stays:
