Ukrainian literature in English translation

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.

On Sunday Morning She Gathered Herbs

Ol'ha Kobylians'ka

Translated by Mary Skrypnyk

Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2001
ISBN 1-895571-34-0 (paper)

A novel based on a traditional Ukrainian folk song, the tragic story of a young man torn between two women and poisoned by one of them. In Kobylians'ka's interpretation it is a story of the eternal conflict between passion and reason, between personal happiness and social constraints, between freedom and its practical limitations.

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.