Petro Trochanowski

Piotr Trochanowski (born 1947) was born in Silesia in the southwestern part of Poland to Lemko parents from Binczarowa. He is the editor of "Besida", published in Krynica since 1989. He is a spokesperson for the Lemko ethnic group in Poland and internationally. He is also published under the pseudonym "Petro Murianka".

He was the first person who was not an ethnic Pole to win the Petak Prize.

References

* [http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/history.htm Lemkos]

Discography

External links

* [http://www.idsnet.org/Papers/Communications/BEATA_KLIMKIEWICZ.HTM "On television, Ruthenians are shown as barefooted peasants living in primitive wooden cottages. They can sing, and play on strange old instruments, but never drive Western cars or run enterprizes"]
* [http://www.rusyn.org/littrokhanovskii.html A small sample of his works]
* [http://www.rusyn.org/awards.html 2002 Chepa Bear and Aleksander Dukhnovich Prize]
* [http://www.lemko.org/rutenika/eng.html Lemko Revival]
* [http://www.lemko.org/BBC/bbc1.html BBC article]

Persondata
Name=Trochanowski, Piotr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Petro Trochanowski, Murianka
SHORT DESCRIPTION=poet, editor, folk musician
DATE OF BIRTH=1947
PLACE OF BIRTH=Silesia
DATE OF DEATH=
PLACE OF DEATH=