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Ukrainian poet, translator and scholar
Iryna Shuvalova
(
Ukrainian
:
?рина Леон?д?вна Шувалова
; born 1986) is a
Ukrainian
poet, translator and scholar.
Early life and education
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Iryna Shuvalova was born in 1986 in
Kyiv
.
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She studied at the
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
.
[2]
In 2014, she completed
MA
in
Comparative literature
at
Dartmouth College
, followed by a PhD in 2020 in
Slavonic studies
at the
University of Cambridge
[1]
[3]
on the topic of songs of the
Russo-Ukrainian War
created by affected local communities.
[2]
[4]
At Dartmouth she was a recipient of a
Fulbright scholarship
, while at Cambridge she gained a
Gates Cambridge Scholarship
and taught Ukrainian.
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Career
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Shuvalova debuted in 2011 with her poetry book
Ran
.
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Her fourth book, the bilingual publication
Pray to the Empty Wells
was strongly influenced by Ukrainian folk culture and nature.
[4]
Her poems have appeared in various anthologies and have been translated into nine languages.
[1]
In 2019, she was a coeditor of
120 pages of "Sodom"
: the first anthology of
queer literature
published in Ukraine.
[1]
[2]
She works as a translator from English into Ukrainian
[1]
and from Ukrainian and Russian into English.
[4]
Shuvalova has translated, among others,
Life of Pi
by
Yann Martel
(2016) and
Milk and Honey
by
Rupi Kaur
(2019).
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[2]
Her translations into English have appeared in
Modern Poetry in Translation
and
Words Without Borders
.
[4]
Shuvalova has received a number of awards for her own work as well as translation, including the first prize in the Smoloskyp Literary Competition in 2010
[1]
[4]
and the Joseph Brodsky/Stephen Spender Prize
[1]
[2]
[5]
for translating Sergei Chegra's poem
The Prayer of the Touch
.
[5]
Shuvalova is a member of
PEN Ukraine
[2]
and in 2017 became an expert on Ukrainian translations for the
English PEN
.
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Publications
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