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Today, we talk about Ukrainian writers and what we can learn about this country through its poetry and prose.
University of Massachusetts professor, novelist and poet Askold Melnyczuk joins us. His parents were Ukrainian refugees.
He also works as a Ukrainian translator and he’ll talk to us about making Ukrainian literature available to the English-speaking world.
Have you read any works by Ukrainian writers?
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Askold Melnyczuk - writer and professor at University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the founder of Arrowsmith Press.
If you're interested in reading Ukrainian literature here are Askold Menyczuk's recommendations.
POETRY
FICTION
ESSAYSIn Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas by Stanislav Aseyev
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