page_title: Contemporary Ukrainian literature
section_title: Translations into English
hierarchical_section_title: Contemporary Ukrainian literature / Translations into English
caption_attribution_description: English: Ihor Pavlyuk
context_page_description: Contemporary Ukrainian literature is a notion referred to Ukrainian literature of the past several decades. Most often 1991 as a year of Ukrainian independence is considered as a start of the contemporary Ukrainian literature as from that year on the literary censorship of the Soviet Union ceased to exist and writers were able to deviate from the official socialist realism style. Principal changes took place in Ukrainian literature already in the years of Perestroika and especially after the Chernobyl disaster. Some researchers consider that contemporary Ukrainian literature started from the 1970-s after the generation of the sixtiers.
  Due to the increased freedom and openness of the Ukrainian society to foreign influences and much broader contacts with literatures of other countries contemporary Ukrainian literature is different from the literature of soviet and classical period. It turns to the previously forbidden topics, using new styles, diversity and mixing of genres, shocking effects and reflecting upon social problems and historical memory.
context_section_description: Many books by Yuri Andrukhovych, Oksana Zabuzhko, Serhiy Zhadan and Ihor Pavlyuk have been translated into English.
  Ukrainian poet Ihor Pavlyuk was the winner of the 2013 English PEN Award.
  His book "A Flight over the Black Sea" became the winning book in the Writers in Translation competition organised by English PEN club.Academia.edu has included book "A Flight over the Black Sea" in the authoritative list “The Greatest Great Books List Ever”.
  The Ukrainian Literature magazine publishes English translations of contemporary writers. A special issue of the International Poetry Review was dedicated to Ukrainian poetry spanning from 1985 to 2010. Among active Ukrainian-English translators are Michael Naydan, Mark Andryczyk, Steve Komarnyckyj, Vitaly Chernetsky and others.
caption: Ihor Pavlyuk
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