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Translated from the Ukrainian by Michael M. Naydan
Published: Thu Apr 15 1993
Eva Lundsager, Were now like (detail), 2021, oil on canvas
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Oksana Zabuzhko, a contributing editor of AGNI, is Ukraine’s major writer and intellectual. She is the author of more than twenty books of poetry, fiction, essays, and criticism, and is known internationally for her novels Field Work in Ukrainian Sex (1996), a portion of which first appeared in English in our pages, and The Museum of Abandoned Secrets (2009). Her books have been translated into some twenty languages and won many awards, including the Angelus Central European Literary Prize (Poland, 2013). She lives in Kyiv. (updated 6/2016)

A Conversation with Oksana Zabuzhko” by Halyna Hryn appeared in AGNI 53.

Michael M. Naydan is editor of Slavic and Eastern European Journal. He has published a book-length translation of Marina Tsvetaeva and Lina Kostenko and is now translating the work of Gregory Skovoroda for Pennsylvania State Press. (1994)
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