Oksana Zabuzhko
- 9:00 EST / 15:00 Kyiv, Friday, March 22
Oksana Zabuzhko is Ukraine’s major contemporary writer, the author of more than twenty books of different genres (poetry, fiction, non-fiction). She made her poetry debut at the age of 12, yet, as her parents had been blacklisted during the Soviet purges of the 1970s, it was not until the perestroika that her first book saw the light of day. She graduated from the department of philosophy of Kyiv Shevchenko University, obtained her PhD in philosophy of arts, and has worked as a research associate for the Institute of Philosophy of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. In the early 1990s she lectured in the USA as a Fulbright Fellow and a Writer-in-Residence at Penn State University, Harvard University, and University of Pittsburgh. After the publication of her novel Field Work in Ukrainian Sex (1996), which in 2006 was named “the most influential Ukrainian book for the 15 years of independence”, she has been living as a free-lance author. Her recent work, The Longest Journey (2022), a book-long essay on the cultural and historical background of the current Russo-Ukrainian war, won in Ukraine The Book of the Year, and has been translated into 9 languages.
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