Oksana Zabuzhko is remembered for writing that changed what came after it.
The record lists Oksana Zabuzhko as Ukrainian writer.
Oksana Zabuzhko was born at Lutsk in 1960. Her recorded nationality is Ukraine. She was educated at Faculty of Philosophy, Taras Shevchenko National University Kyiv.
Contemporary publishing is global and fast, with translation, festivals and prizes doing much of the work that critics once did.
She worked as poet, philosopher and writer.
Her work is classed as prose.
Reputation in letters is unusually volatile: writers are forgotten for a generation and then recovered by one.
The honours record reads: Antonovych prize (2009), Order of Princess Olga, 3rd class and Shevchenko National Prize (2019).
That the work was written from Ukraine matters: language, censorship and the reach of a publishing industry decide which books travel and which stay local.
Oksana Zabuzhko is still writing, and the shape of the body of work is not yet settled.
Achievements
- Antonovych prize — 2009
- Order of Princess Olga, 3rd class
- Shevchenko National Prize — 2019
- Genres: prose
