#ukrainian writer

[gaiagrin]

book cover of The Spirit of the Times by Nataliya Kobrynska

[volathemoon]

Ah, what is this? A-ah. What kind of fool (me) thinks they'll find success in the field of writing? Alright, let me read this…

So, yeah. I'm writing my own book. It’s a novel in the genre of ethnic fantasy based on the ethnography of Ukrainians, my ethnic group.

The plot goes like this: a Ukrainian girl named Larysa embarks on a journey across Ukraine, from Slobozhanshchyna to the Carpathians, in search of Veles’ vyshyvanka – a magical artifact that holds the secrets of wealth, animal husbandry, and death. Along the way, she will encounter numerous creatures from Ukrainian folklore, a family of Russian landlords determined to thwart her, and a divine conflict within the Slavic pantheon.

I’m asking for feedback on this opening. The original is being written in Ukrainian and translated into English using [don’t judge me] ChatGPT. And was it worth translating Ukrainian folk songs included in the book into English?

[mrsheo]

З днем народження чудового письменника і волонтера Євгена Ліра! ✨

[forever70s]

Clarice Lispector in 1969

[folklorespring]

by Victoria Amelina, translated from Ukrainian by Anatoly Kudryavitsky

[hummingbird-hunter]

Tankies really have one argument to defend their genocide denial and that is "western sources are propaganda and you can't trust them". Ah, yes, the most westernest of sources, my Ukrainian grandma.

[kaontic]

*Crawls outta the rabbit hole*

Spike! Czy ty rozumiesz po polsku? O_o 🧺

Welp, congratulations.

You know just as much Polish as I do. 🫠🐇

[yourdailyqueer]

Sydor Rey (deceased)

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Bisexual

DOB: 6 September 1908 

DOD: 15 November 1979

Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish

Nationality: Polish / American

Occupation: Writer, poet

Note: Could also be Ukrainian as was born there and studied in Lviv

[pansnovidinnia]

fuck you russian lovers. fuck you russians as a whole. fucking bastards. terrorists and fans of terrorism. fuck you all. fuck you for not caring for human life. fuck you for being assholes and insensitive bitches. fuck you. i have nothing but hatred towards you. fuck you. i have much more bad words to say but i won't because tumblr won't let me. every time you fuckers talk positively about anything russian you fucking support literal genocide. every time you say tolstoy (or whatever russian author you bring up) was a good writer you support terrorism. every time you joke about russian culture you support terrorism. every time you say russian government is the only problem, you support terrorism. every time you promote russian artists or whatever fuckers from russia you bring up, you promote and support terrorism. fuck you russian lovers. hope you have the worst life imaginable. pathetic shitfuckers.

[dontforgetukraine]

Illustration from Russian Colonialism 101 by Maksym Eristavi. Published by IST. Illustration by Nikita Kravtsov.

[ihopeinevergetsoberr]

THIS IS SO ME. “sorry your viktor requests are taking so long guys, my city got bombed and i didn’t have the energy to continue writing after a three hour long air raid alarm”

[gaiagrin]

from book Kharkivsʹki baĭky by Hryhorii Skovoroda

[resu-w-ana]

The life of bilingual writer: an illustration.

[cookie01061]

Decided to rewrite the ILLUSION424 lore cuz yeah… I hated it…

Bunnbi who was the only conscious being in the game while everyone else were objects, Bunnbi was living in the digital world for years, never realizing that they were ACTUALLY in digital world until now…

Bunnbi woke up in black empty space with nothing but a weird looking figure infront. Bunnbi had no idea what was happening since they lost ALL of their memories and reicarnated in empty black space. “Figure” explains Bunnbi everything what was happening in their world and why are they here, that figure doesn’t introduce themselves to Bunnbi, why? The reason is unknown, I mean… not like “not introducing themselves at all” they just said their name and nothing else – “Flasker”

Flasker explained Bunnbi why are they here and what was happening in the “digital world”, the “digital world” was getting deleted since it was full of models and textures that contained viruses and trojans, it had these since it was just created. Although… Bunnbi couldn’t remember anything from that, and turns out, that Flasker stole their memories – “your memories are just useless bunch of pixels, time to return to reality and forget…”

The tasks and puzzles were assigned to Bunnbi by Flasker, starting off with simple-ish tasks and ending up with harder, to make the Bunnbi stronger and more powerful and the final challenge required to Bunnbi to destroy the universe with the abilities and powers they gained from other tasks.

Flasker used to be one of the “gods of the triverse” and was one of the most powerful ones, tasks were assigned to the aswell, like destroying planets and whole universes, even almost destroyed the triverse… but after the failed challenge, more universe’s appeared in triverse, some of them united and it was hard for them to continue, so they of course gave up, not realizing what will happen next…

After the defeat, Flasker loses all their abilities and powers, causing them to shrink and got sent to the black empty space and becoming the owner of the black emptiness… they were suffering alone in nothingness for millions of years until they met Bunnbi, assigning them to become the next “Flaudient” By the way… Flaudient is Flasker’s real name… they called themselves “Flasker” because of the defeat that caused them to forget their name and most of their memories except the memories of the “versecide” and “planetcide”, so they suggested Bunnbi to become the next triverse god to create utopia for “Flasker”, gaining ability and powers by challenging the tasks in other spaces of triverse…

To be continued…

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Victoria Amelina

Victoria Amelina was born in 1986 in Lviv, Ukraine. Amelina's debut novel was published in 2014. Her 2017 novel Dom's Dream Kingdom was shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Literature and the UNESCO City of Literature Prize. In 2021, Amelina received the Joseph Conrad Literary Award from the Polish Institute in Kyiv. Her work has been translated into several languages, including German, English, Italian, and Polish. During the war in Ukraine, Amelina set her writing aside to work for the human rights group Truth Hounds, traveling to liberated areas to record the testimonies of witnesses and survivors of Russian crimes.

Victoria Amelina died in 2023 at the age of 37 from injuries sustained in a missile strike.

[folklorespring]

by Artem Dovhopolyi