Yuri Pokalchuk
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Yuri Pokalchuk was a Ukrainian writer, translator, researcher, candidate of philological sciences, head of the international department of the Union of Writers of Ukraine.
, childhood and adolescence spent in the Lutsk
, where he graduated from school, he studied in Lutsk Pedagogical Institute, then transferred to the Leningrad University (Department Oriental languages, Indology).
Since 1976 - a member of the Writers' Union of Ukraine.
Since 1994 until 1998 - the head of the foreign branch of the Union of Writers of Ukraine.
Since 1997 until 2000 - president of the Association of Ukrainian Writers.
Since 2000 until 2002 - Member of the National Council on Television and Radio.
Since 2007 - member of STAN (art-group)
.
Died September 10, 2008 in Kiev
.
In the Soviet Union
was one of the first translators of works of Jorge Luis Borges
. Translated Ernest Hemingway
, J. D. Salinger
, Julio Cortázar
, Jorge Amado
, Mario Vargas Llosa
, Rudyard Kipling
and Arthur Rimbaud
and many others, has written 17 fiction books. He knew 11 foreign languages. In his own works tended to erotic topics.
Biography
Yuri Pokalchuk was born on 24 January 1941 in KremenetsKremenets
Kremenets is a city in the Ternopil Oblast of western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Kremenets Raion , and rests 18 km north-east of the great Pochayiv Monastery...
, childhood and adolescence spent in the Lutsk
Lutsk
Lutsk is a city located by the Styr River in northwestern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Volyn Oblast and the administrative center of the surrounding Lutskyi Raion within the oblast...
, where he graduated from school, he studied in Lutsk Pedagogical Institute, then transferred to the Leningrad University (Department Oriental languages, Indology).
Since 1976 - a member of the Writers' Union of Ukraine.
Since 1994 until 1998 - the head of the foreign branch of the Union of Writers of Ukraine.
Since 1997 until 2000 - president of the Association of Ukrainian Writers.
Since 2000 until 2002 - Member of the National Council on Television and Radio.
Since 2007 - member of STAN (art-group)
STAN (art-group)
STAN is the modern art community acting in Ukraine since 1999. Art-group «STAN» contributes the accumulation of creative forces of the region to overcome the cultural crisis and realization the creative projects. Location of group – Lugansk....
.
Died September 10, 2008 in Kiev
Kiev
Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....
.
In the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
was one of the first translators of works of Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo , known as Jorge Luis Borges , was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school, receiving his baccalauréat from the Collège de Genève in 1918. The family...
. Translated Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...
, J. D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger
Jerome David Salinger was an American author, best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, as well as his reclusive nature. His last original published work was in 1965; he gave his last interview in 1980....
, Julio Cortázar
Julio Cortázar
Julio Cortázar, born Jules Florencio Cortázar, was an Argentine writer. Cortázar, known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, influenced an entire generation of Spanish speaking readers and writers in the Americas and Europe.-Early life:Cortázar's parents, Julio José Cortázar and...
, Jorge Amado
Jorge Amado
Jorge Leal Amado de Faria was a Brazilian writer of the Modernist school. He was the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, notably Dona Flor and her Two Husbands in 1978...
, Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian-Spanish writer, politician, journalist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading authors of his generation...
, Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature...
and Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet. Born in Charleville, Ardennes, he produced his best known works while still in his late teens—Victor Hugo described him at the time as "an infant Shakespeare"—and he gave up creative writing altogether before the age of 21. As part of the decadent...
and many others, has written 17 fiction books. He knew 11 foreign languages. In his own works tended to erotic topics.
Works
- Who Are You?
- We have always
- Color tone
- CoffeeMatagalpa
- WonderfulTime
- Sabre and the Arrow(2003)
- Moderato
- Lake wind
- The fact that the bottom
- Taxi Blues(2003)
- Ring Road(2004)
- Forbidden Games(2005)
- Giddy smell Jungle(2005)
- Hooligans(2006)
- Do not step on Love(2007)
- Kama Sutra(Collected Works) (2007).
Literary studies
- Lonelygeneration
- Towards a new consciousness
- Contemporary Latin American fiction.