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Iryna Yevsa

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Iryna Oleksandrivna Yevsa (Russian: Ирина Александровна Евса, Ukrainian: Ірина Олександрівна Євса) (born October 15, 1956) is a Russian-language Ukrainian poet and translator. She lives in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Biography

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Yevsa was born into a military family in Kharkiv, Ukraine SSR. She studied in the philological faculty at the National University of Kharkiv and graduated from Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow in 1981.[1] Following her graduation, she worked at the Book Chamber of Ukraine from 1981-1986 and began working for the company Apis in 1988.[2] She has recently worked for the National University of Kharkiv.

First published as a poet in 1975, Yevsa also translates literature from Armenian, Georgian, Polish, and Ukrainian into Russian. Her own work has been translated into Ukrainian, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Georgian, Lithuanian, and Serbian.[1]

Works

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Poetry collections

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  • 1976, Отзвук (Echo)
  • 1978, Дыхание (Breath)
  • 1985, Август (August)
  • 1986, Сад (Garden)
  • 1986, День седьмой (Day Seven)
  • 1995, Изгнание из рая (Exile from Paradise)
  • 1999, Наверное, снилось… (Probably Dreamed...)
  • 2000, Лодка на фаянсе (Boat on Faience)
  • 2015, Юго-Восток (South-East)

Translations and arrangements

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With the subtitle, "Modern Poetic Version of Iryna Yevsa"

In collaboration with A. K. Shaposhnikov

Awards

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  • 2000, named as a laureate for the International Foundation for the Memory of Boris Chichibabin[3]
  • 2013, Paragraph anti-award in the category for "worst translation" criticizing her work translating out-of-copyright literary classics into Russian[4]
  • 2016, Russian Prize at the XIV Literary Festival Named after Maximilian Voloshin for her work "Юго-Восток" ("South-East")[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Евса, Ирина Александровна | Кто такой Евса, Ирина Александровна?". Словари и энциклопедии на Академике (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-09-18.
  2. ^ "Евса Ирина Александровна - Биография". www.biografija.ru. Retrieved 2022-09-18.
  3. ^ "Ирина Евса | Новая карта русской литературы". www.litkarta.ru. Retrieved 2022-09-18.
  4. ^ "Читать иль не читать — вот в чем вопрос". www.taday.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-09-18.
  5. ^ "В Коктебеле прошел XIV литературный фестиваль имени Максимилиана Волошина". Российская газета. 2016-10-03. Retrieved 2022-09-18.