Anna-Galya Gorbach ( ukr. Anna-Galya Gorbach ; nee Lutsyak ; March 2, 1924 , Brodina - June 11, 2011 , Reichelsheim) - Ukrainian translator , literary critic , publisher , social activist . Doctor of Philosophy, member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine (1993), corresponding member of the Shevchenko Scientific Community in Europe .
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| Date of Birth | March 2, 1924 |
| Place of Birth | Brodina , Romania |
| Date of death | June 11, 2011 (87 years old) |
| Place of death | Reichelsheim , Germany |
| Citizenship |  Ukraine |
| Occupation | translator |
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Biography
Born on March 2, 1924 in the Subcarpathian village of Brodina ( Southern Bukovina ), by December 1940 she attended a Romanian school. Education received in Germany. She took an active part in the work of the German section of Amnesty International , in the 1960-1980s she was engaged in informing the world community about political repression in Ukraine. She was the organizer of protest campaigns in defense of writers Vasily Stus , Ivan Svetlichny , Nikolai Gorbal , dissident Vyacheslav Chernovol and other Ukrainian prisoners of conscience, and conducted active correspondence with them [1] .
He is the author of the works “Epic stylistic means of Cossack thoughts”, “ Olga Kobylyanskaya and German culture”, “Ukrainian Carpathian fairy tales”.
Gorbach turned into German and published works by Mikhail Kotsyubinsky , Gnat Hotkevich , Vasyl Stus, Yevgeny Sverstiuk , Valery Marchenko , Igor Kalints , Valery Shevchuk , Yuri Andrukhovich and others [2] [3] . In total, about 50 translations came out of her hands [3] . Gorbach streamlined and published 6 anthologies of Ukrainian prose in German — Blue November, Well for the Thirsty, and Ukrainian Chernobyl storytelling [4] . She was the initiator of a series of German-language translations "Samizdat of Ukraine." In 1995, together with her husband Alexei Gorbachev, she founded the publishing house Brodina (Brodina Verlag), which published and distributed works of Ukrainian writers in Germany [4] .
The spouses of Gorbachi were the initiators of the creation of the only German specialized department of Ukrainian studies at the University of Greifswald. Anna-Galya Gorbach devoted the last years of her life to the publication of the works of her husband, Alexei Gorbach. She died in Reichelsheim on June 11, 2011 [5] .
Differences
- Vasyl Stus Prize of the Ukrainian Association of Independent Creative Intelligentsia (1993);
- Literary Prize named after Ivan Franko (1994);
- Prize "Triumph" (2001);
- Order of Princess Olga of the III degree (2006);
- Order of Merit to the Federal Republic of Germany (2006);
- Prize named after Elena Teligi (2009).
Notes
- ↑ Anna-Galya Gorbach / Personalia / Project “Ukrainian on Svitі” . www.ukrainians-world.org.ua. The appeal date is June 2, 2018.
- ↑ Scho take GORBACH ANNA-GALYA - UCE (Universalnaya dictionary-encyclopedia) - Glossaries - Slovopedіya . slovopedia.org.ua. The appeal date is June 2, 2018.
- ↑ 1 2 Gorbach Anna-Galya - Encyclopedia of Advanced Ukraine (Ukrainian) . esu.com.ua. The appeal date is June 2, 2018.
- ↑ 1 2 GORBACH ANNA-GALA . resource.history.org.ua. The appeal date is June 2, 2018.
- ↑ The switchboard died, a popularizer of Ukrainian literature in Nіmechchі і, a lot of daughters Anna-Galya Gorbach (russ.) , Maidan (June 17, 2011). The appeal date is June 2, 2018.