Mykola Riabchuk
Mykola Riabchuk | |
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Микола Рябчук | |
Riabchuk in 2009 | |
Born | (1953-09-27) September 27, 1953 (age 70) Lutsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
Nationality | Ukrainian |
Occupation(s) | Public intellectual, journalist, political analyst, literary critic, translator, writer |
Spouse | Natalka Bilotserkivets (poet) |
Mykola Riabchuk (Ukrainian: Рябчук Микола Юрійович; born September 27, 1953) is Ukrainian public intellectual, journalist, political analyst, literary critic, translator and writer. Riabchuk is known for his analytical articles and essays on Ukrainian politics, national identity and analysis of Ukrainian history from postcolonial perspective. Married to Ukrainian poet Natalka Bilotserkivets.
Biography
Riabchuk was born in Lutsk in western Ukraine. He studied engineering at Lviv Polytechnic. He was a member of the literary group around Hryhoriy Chubay with whom he authored the samizdat literary almanach "Skrynya", for which he was expelled from the university. Consequently, he took different jobs including working for the railway, theater electrician, etc. In 1988 Riabchuk graduated from Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow. From 1985 till 1994 Riabchuk worked as an editor of the "Vsesvit" journal dedicated to translations of literature from foreign languages. In the 1990s Riabchuk was the editor of Suchasnist magazine, which published new Ukrainian literature, he is responsible for bringing several now famous Ukrainian writers to the broad audience.[1] Riabchuk was one of the founders of the Krytyka magazine. Since 1997 he is a member of the Association of Ukrainian Writers. Writes a weekly column for "Gazeta po-ukrayinsky". Riabchuk is currently a research fellow at the Ukrainian Center for Cultural Studies in Kyiv. In 2005 he received a Candidate Degree in Political Science at the Institute for Political and Ethnic Studies National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Awards
- POLCUL Award, 1998
- Polish-Ukrainian Capitula Award in 2002 for his contribution to Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation.
- Book of the Year Award, 2000 and 2003
- Antonovych prize in 2003 for outstanding achievements in the humanities
Books
- Winter in Lviv (collection of poems)
- Ukraine on Its Meandering Path Between East and West (Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe) by Andrej N. Lushnycky (Editor), Mykola Riabchuk (Editor) (2009)
- Mykoła Riabczuk Od Małorosji do Ukrainy ISBN 83-242-0098-3 (2003)
- Od Malorusije do Ukrajine. - Beograd: Svetozar Markovic, 2003
- Mykoła Riabczuk Dwie Ukrainy ISBN 83-89185-07-5 (2004)
- Mykoła Riabczuk Ogród Metternicha Wrocław: Kolegium Europy Wschodniej, 2010
- Riabchuk De La Petite Russie a L'Ukraine ISBN 2747551342 (2003)
- Mykola Rjabtschuk Die reale und die imaginierte Ukraine ISBN 978-3-518-12418-5 (2005)
- Mykola Riabchuk Gleichschaltung. Authoritarian Consolidation in Ukraine 2010–2012 (ENG) ISBN 978-617-684-001-5 (2012)
References
- ^ Mark Andryczyk. The Intellectual as Hero in 1990s Ukrainian Fiction. Kindle e-book. Location 2332 of 4007, Chapter 7: A Community of Others.
External links
- Mykola Riabchuk at the National Endowment for Democracy
- M. Riabchuk on Eurozine
- Articles by Mykola Riabchik
- Mykola Riabchuk National Academy of sciense of Ukraine
- Articles by Mykola Riabchik
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- 1981: Vasyl Barka
- 1982: Orest Subtelny / Vasyl Stus
- 1983: Linda Gordon / Emma Andijewska
- 1984: Magdalena László-Kuțiuk / Yuriy Kolomiyets
- 1985: David Saunders / Yuiriy Lavrinenko
- 1986: Bohdan Krawchenko / Natalya Livytska-Cholodna
- 1987: Robert Conquest / Leonid Plyushch
- 1988: John-Paul Himka / George Shevelov / Hryhoriy Kostyuk
- 1989: Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak / Lina Kostenko
- 1990: Ivan Dziuba / Valeriy Shevchuk
- 1991: Bohdan Hawrylyshyn / Zbigniew Brzezinski / Ivan Drach
- 1992: Literaturna Ukrayina / Mykhaylo Braychevskyi / Volodymyr Drozd
- 1993: Mykola Zhulynskyi / Yaroslav Dashkevych / Mykola Vinhranovskyi
- 1994: Olena Apanovych / Yevhen Hutsalo
- 1995: Mykhaylyna Kotsyubynska / Viacheslav Briukhovetsky / Roman Fedoriv
- 1996: Bohdan Bociurkiw / Hryhoriy Lohvyn / Yuriy Mushketyk
- 1997: Dmytro Stepovyk / Ihor Kalynets
- 1998: Yuriy Barabash / George S. N. Luckyj
- 1999: Ihor Ševčenko
- 2000: Yuriy Badzyo
- 2001: Yurii Andrukhovych / Michael Hamm / Roman Szporluk
- 2002: Yuriy Shapoval / Hryhoriy Huseynov / Yaroslav Isayevych
- 2003: Mykola Riabchuk / Roman Ivanychuk
- 2004: Andriy Sodomora / Dmytro Pavlychko
- 2005: None
- 2006: Borys Gudziak
- 2007: Yaroslav Hrytsak
- 2008: George G. Grabowicz / Andriy Dzhul
- 2009: Liubomyr Vynar / Oksana Zabuzhko
- 2010: Aleksandra Hnatiuk / Bogumiła Berdychowska
- 2011: Andrea Graziosi / Stanislav Kultsytskyi
- 2012: Zenon Kohut / Frank Sysyn
- 2013: Leonid Finberg
- 2014: Timothy Snyder
- 2015: Serhii Plokhy
- 2016: Bohdan Prakh
- 2017: Anne Applebaum
- 2018: Yuriy Shcherbak
- 2019: Alexander J. Motyl
- 2020: Svoboda