- George S. N. Luckyj
George Stephen Nestor Luckyj (
1919 -November 22 ,2001 ) was a scholar ofUkrainian literature , who greatly contributed to the awareness of Ukrainian literature in the English-speaking world and to the continuation of legitimate scholarship on the subject during the post-war period.Luckyj was born in 1919 in the village
Yanchyn , todayIvanivka , close toLviv . His father wasOstap Lutsky , a Ukrainian modernist poet and member of the Polish Senate, and his mother wasIrena Smal-Stotska , the child ofStephan Smal-Stotsky , a Slavic philologist and Austrian parliament member.After studying German literature at the
University of Berlin , he fortunately went to England right beforeWorld War II for a summer program at Cambridge University. After the Soviet occupation of Western Ukraine, formerly Poland, in 1939, his father was taken by theNKVD and eventually died in a concentration camp. In 1943, Luckyj joined theBritish army and worked as a Russian interpreter inoccupied Germany .In 1947, he moved to
Saskatoon ,Canada for a position teaching English literature at theUniversity of Saskatchewan . Two year afterwards, he left for New York to pursue a doctorate atColumbia University . His Ph.D. dissertation became the key Ukrainian literary scholarly text, "Literary Politics in the Soviet Ukraine, 1917–1934". He also participated in the activities of theUkrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences , an important scholarly instituation begun by Ukrainian émigrés in New York.He became a professor at the
University of Toronto and was involved in the creation of theCanadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies andCanadian Association of Slavists . His writing, both scholarly and of translation, was prodigious until his death in 2001.Translations
Luckyj was well-known for his translations of Ukrainian literature, which have exposed large new audiences to its depth and quality.
*"The Hunters and the Hunted",
Ivan Bahrianyi (1954, 1956)
*Iwan Majstrenko's "Borotbism: A Chapter in the History of Ukrainian Communism" (1954)
*Elie Borschak's "Hryhor Orlyk: France's Cossack General" (1956)
*Dmytro Doroshenko's "Survey of Ukrainian Historiography" (1957)
*Mykola Khvyliovy 's "Stories from the Ukraine" (1960)
*Hryhory Kostiuk's "Stalinist Rule in the Ukraine: A Decade of Mass Terror" (1960)
*George Y. Shevelov's "Syntax of Modern Literary Ukrainian" (1963)
*"A Little Touch of Drama " byValerian Pidmohylny (1972)
*Panteleimon Kulish 's "Black Council " (1973)
*Mykola Kulish 's "Sonata Pathètique" (1975)
*Yevhen Sverstiuk's "Clandestine Essays" (1976)
*Mykhailo Kotsiubyns'kyi 's "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" (1981)
*Pavlo Zaitsev's "Taras Shevchenko: A Life" (1988)References
* Luckyj, George S.N. ( [1956] 1990). "Literary Politics in the Soviet Ukraine, 1917–1934", revised and updated edition. Durham NC: Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-1099-6
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