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Ukrainian literature: Anthologies

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V inshomu svitli - In a different light

Translated into English by Virlana Tkach and Wanda Phipps

Lviv: Sribne slovo, 2008
ISBN 978-966-8399-09-1

A selection of works by Ukrainian authors and Ukrainian folk literature with English translations.

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A Hundred Years of Youth. A Bilingual Anthology of 20th century Ukrainian Poetry

Compiled and edited by Olha Luchuk and Michael M. Naydan

Lviv: Litopys, 2000
ISBN 966-7007-36-1

The first major anthology of Ukrainian poetry in English since C. H. Andrusyshen's and Watson Kirkconnell's The Ukrainian Poets, 1189-1962 (University of Toronto Press, 1963) and Zakhar Honcharuk's Anthology of Soviet Ukrainian Poetry (Dnipro Publishers, 1982). Contains the Ukrainian originals and English translations of poems by 100 poets.

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From Three Worlds. New Writing from Ukraine

Ed Hogan (ed)

Boston, MA: Zephyr Press, 1996
ISBN 0-939010-52-6 (pbk), 0-939010-53-4 (cloth)

An anthology of English translations of prose and poetry by 18 contemporary Ukrainian authors and poets.

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Ukrainian Dumy

Translations by George Tarnawsky and Patricia Kilina

Toronto - Cambridge, MA: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies and Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1979
ISBN 0-920862-00-4 (bound), 0-920862-02-0 (paper)

English translations of most of the known original dumy, the folk heroic epics of Cossack Ukraine, together with the corresponding Ukrainian texts.

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Songs of Ukraina. With Ruthenian poems

Translated by Florence Randal Livesay

London, Paris & Toronto: J.M.Dent & Sons Limited, 1916

English translations of around 90 Ukrainian historical, ritual and folk songs and poems.