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Poet, essayist, and now novelist
Natalka Bilotserkivets
(Наталка Білоцерківець, born in Kuianivka, 1954) became
one of the most prominent poets of the 1980s generation
that marked a transitional period from the Soviet era
to the complete independence of Ukrainian literature.
She is best known for her collections
November
(1989),
Allergy
(1999), and
Hotel Central
(2004), and has recently
completed her first novel
The History of My Man,
which
is forthcoming. Her poem “We’ll Not Die in Paris” has
become a classic of Ukrainian rock music recorded by the
Dead Rooster band. A number of her other poems such as
“May” and “A Hundred Years of Youth” have also become
classics of Ukrainian poetry. Trafika Europe recorded an
audio interviewwith Natalka during her recent visit to
the US, including a reading and discussion of her seminal
poem, “We’ll Not Die in Paris.” (1-hour audio – bilingual
Ukrainian-English)