Oksana zabuzhko autobiography

Oksana Zabuzhko was born in 1960 in Ukraine.
Oksana Zabuzhko, Ukraine's leading contemporary author, was born in 1960.
Oksana Stefanivna Zabuzhko is a Ukrainian novelist, poet, and essayist.

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Oksana Zabuzhko was born in 1960 in Ukraine. She made her poetry debut at the age of 12, yet, because her parents had been blacklisted during the Soviet purges of the 1970s, it was not until the perestroika that her first book was published. She graduated from the department of philosophy of Kyiv Shevchenko University, obtained her PhD in philosophy of arts, and has spent some time in the USA lecturing 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 in Kiev as a free-lance author. She has authored over 20 books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, which have been translated into fifteen languages. Among her numerous acknowledgments are MacArthur Grant (2002), Antonovych International Foundation Prize (2008), the Ukrainian National Award, the Order of Princess Olha (2009), the ANGELUS Central European Literature

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“...the most important contemporary female author in independent Ukraine...”

Novelist, poet, and philosopher, Oksana Zabuzhko is one of Ukraine’s best known and most important public intellectuals. Her controversial novel, Field Work in Ukrainian Sex, is widely regarded as a contemporary classic and has been translated into more than a dozen languages. Her most recent novel, Museum of Abandoned Secrets, explores the untold stories of Soviet life in the second half of the twentieth century. Zabuzhko has been a Fulbright scholar, and has taught Ukrainian literature at Penn State, Pittsburgh University, and Harvard. Her book Notre-dame d’Ukraine is a cultural study focused on the work of the fin-de-siecle writer Lesia Ukrainka. Founding editor of Komora Publishers, she works at the Hryhori Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy at the National Academy of Sciences in Ukraine.

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Oksana Zabuzhko

Biography

Oksana Zabuzhko was born in 1960 and lives in Kyiv. She is a graduate of the Department of Philosophy of Kyiv Shevchenko University (1982). After having completed her post-graduate studies there, she obtained her PhD in Philosophy of Arts in 1987. Since then she has been working as an Associate Scholar for the Institute of Philosophy of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kyiv.

Zabuzhko was a Fulbright Fellow in the United States in 1994 (at Harvard University and the University of Pittsburgh), and taught Ukrainian culture and literature as a Writer-in-Residence at Penn State University in 1992. She also writes for journals and magazines on various literary issues, and has worked as a columnist for one of the country’s major weeklies. She is Vice-President of the Ukrainian PEN-center, and Distinguished Creative Writing Professor at Kiev Shevchenko University.

Zabuzhko’s works have been widely translated in Central and Eastern Europe, and have won her many literary awards. Among her international writer’s honors are the 1997 Global Commitment Foundat