Oksana Lutsyshyna

Oksana Lutsyshyna
Shevchenko National Prize laureate[1]
Окса́на Луци́шина
Born
Oksana Petrivna Kishko

(1974-10-10) 10 October 1974
Uzhhorod, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Ukraine)
Alma mater
Occupations
  • Poet
  • writer
  • professor
OrganizationAssistant professor at the University of Texas[2]
Awardssee here

Oksana Petrivna Lutsyshyna[a] (née Kishko;[3] born 10 October 1974)[4] is a Ukrainian poet and writer who is a recipient of the Shevchenko National Prize, and member of PEN Ukraine.[5] She primarily writes poetry and fiction in Ukrainian[6].

Early life and education

Born on 10 October 1974, in the Ukrainian city of Uzhhorod.[7][5] Lutsyshyna received her degree in 1995 from Uzhhorod National University's Faculty of Romano-Germanic Philology.[8] Lutsyshyna received training at Kansas University in the United States from 1993 to 1994. Following her graduation, she worked as a teaching assistant in the Department of Foreign Languages at the Uzhhorod State Institute of Economics, Informatics and Law (1998–2001) and as an assistant in the Department of English at Uzhhorod National University (1995–1998).

Career

The most prominent literary honors in Ukraine were given to Lutsyshyna's most recent book, Ivan and Phoebe (2019), in 2020 and 2021, respectively: the Taras Shevchenko National Prize in Fiction and the Lviv UNESCO City of Literature Prize. Deep Vellum Publishing published Nina Murray's English translation of the book in 2023. The English translation of her poetry book Persephone Blues was published by Arrowsmith in 2019. HURI Books will soon release the English translation of the author's second book, Love Life (novel). Along with Olena Jennings, she also does English translations of Ukrainian writers.[9] Her original poems and translations are included inside the Words for War collection, an anthology of English-language Ukrainian poetry that responds to the continuing conflict in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.[10]

Works

Lutsyshyna's original writing has been published in Ukraine and consists of two novels, a collection of short tales, and three poetry collections. One of her books has been nominated for a Ukrainian BBC prize on the long list.[7][11] She has written and published the following poetry and novels:[12][13]

  • Without Blushing (2007)
  • The Sun Seldom Sets (2007)
  • I Am Listening to the Song of America (2010)
  • Love Life (2015)[14]
  • Felicity's Poems (2018)
  • Ivan and Phoebe (2019)[15]
  • Persephone Blues (2019)[16]

Awards and recognitions

Lutsyshyna has received awards and recognitions such as:[12][17]

English editions and translations

  • Persephone Blues, poetry (Arrowsmith, 2019), translated selections.[19]
  • Ivan and Phoebe (Deep Vellum, 2023), trans. Nina Murray, ISBN 978-1646052622.[20]
  • Love Life (HURI Books/Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature, 2024), trans. Nina Murray, ISBN 978-0674297159 (pbk); 978-0674297166 (hc).[21]

Notes

  1. ^ Ukrainian: Окса́на Петрі́вна Луци́шина

References

  1. ^ Лауреати Національної премії [National Award Winners]. Committee for the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 13 June 2025.
  2. ^ "Oksana Lutsyshyna". The Kyiv Independent. 12 July 2023. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  3. ^ "Уродженка Ужгорода Оксана Луцишина стала лауреаткою Шевченківської премії @ Закарпаття онлайн". Закарпаття онлайн (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  4. ^ "Луцишина Оксана Петрівна | Комітет з Національної премії України імені Тараса Шевченка". www.knpu.gov.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  5. ^ a b "Lutsyshyna Oksana". PEN Ukraine. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  6. ^ "UT College of Liberal Arts". liberalarts.utexas.edu. 23 July 2017. Archived from the original on 23 July 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  7. ^ a b "Oksana Lutsyshyna". Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  8. ^ "Oksana Lutsyshyna". The Modern Novel. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  9. ^ "Profile for Oksana Lutsyshyna at UT Austin". liberalarts.utexas.edu. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  10. ^ "Oksana Lutsyshyna". Poetry Foundation. 16 March 2024. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  11. ^ "OKSANA LUTSYSHYNA – Modern Poetry in Translation". modernpoetryintranslation.com. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  12. ^ a b "Oksana Lutsyshyna: award-winning Ukrainian writer". Oksana Lutsyshyna. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  13. ^ "Оксана Луцишина-лауреат премії Шевченка 2021 у номінації «Література»". vseosvita.ua. 13 March 2021. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  14. ^ "Oksana Lutsyshyna". www.hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  15. ^ a b c "Oksana Lutsyshyna". Deep Vellum. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  16. ^ "Oksana Lutsyshyna – Time of the Writer". Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  17. ^ Ходанич, П. М. (12 December 2017). Луцишина Оксана Петрівна (in Ukrainian). Vol. 18. Інститут енциклопедичних досліджень НАН України. ISBN 978-966-02-2074-4. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  18. ^ "Oksana Lutsyshyna Receives Fulbright Award | Comparative Literature". www.cmlt.uga.edu. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  19. ^ "Oksana Lutsyshyna". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 10 November 2025.
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