The notion of Stanislav Shevchenko’s translation in ukrainian-polish cultural relation
Authors:   National University of Bioresources and Nature Management of Ukraine, Chumak T. 
Published: December 2022

The notion of Stanislav Shevchenko’s translation in ukrainian-polish cultural relation The problem of Ukrainian-Polish relations in the field of culture as the most effective and mass form of communication has always aroused the interest of researchers. Cultural dialogue contributes to the cognition, national awareness, mutual enrichment and interpenetration of cultures. This applies to the greatest extent to the cultures of Ukraine and Poland, as it is proved by the centuries of common history of these countries. The proclamation of Ukraine’s independence and the victory of democratic forces in Poland, the establishment of relations between the countries at the level of strategic partnership were the impulse for historical coverage of various aspects of relations between the two countries based on their comprehensive study and analysis with a renewed Europe in the background. Stanislav Shevchenko’s translation occupies an important place among the literary achievements in Ukrainian-Polish cultural relations. Stanislav Shevchenko (poet, translator, member of the Writers’ Union of Ukraine) was born in 1947 in Chernihiv region, in the picturesque village of Hrabiv, Ichnia district. He graduated from the Faculty of Cybernetics of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (former Taras Shevchenko State University of Kyiv). Stanislav Shevchenko is an Honored Art Worker of Ukraine and Honored Worker of Polish Culture. The artist’s poetry masterpieces include ‘Seredyna Riky’ (‘Middle of the River’), ‘Vira i Sumniv’ (‘Faith and Doubt’), ‘Duma Kyparysa’ (‘Cypress Thought’), ‘Spiv Chuttia’ (‘Singing Sense’), ‘Blyz’ke i Nedosiazhne’ (‘Close and Unreachable’), ‘Zakon zberezhennia liubovi’ (‘The Law of Preservation of Love’), ‘Kvity nebesni zemnoi liubovi’ (‘Heavenly Flowers of Earthly Love’), ‘Pid suzir’iam pasiky’ (‘Under the Constellation apiaries’), ‘Dim dlia dushi’ (‘House for the soul’), ‘Nezryma hran’ (‘Invisible border’), etc. He is the author and host of several cultural programs of the National Radio Company of Ukraine, a laureate of Ukrainian and Polish literary prizes named after I. Nechuy-Levytsky, M. Rylsky, I. Koshelivets, V. Chumak, V. Gulevych, F. Karpinsky and A. Mickiewicz Institute. For more than twenty years Stanislav Shevchenko has been improving his translation skills by publishing essays on the works of Polish poets, participating in symposia and scientific sessions. He has been on internships several times at the two most important universities in Poland – Jagiellonian and Warsaw ones. In the early 1990s, he visited Roman Catholic priest Jan Twardowski, and later met Czeslaw Milosz and Ernest Brill. He received the consent of the Vatican to translate the poems of Pope John Paul II. In his ‘literary’ travels he crossed almost all Poland, getting acquainted with the most important artistic centers. Seeking to show Polish poetry not only in modern terms, he chose the nowadays creators, with a few exceptions, such as Stanislaw Grochowiak, who died in 1976.