04/06/2025
“Crooked Runs the World” by Marjana Savka – a report from Lviv after Zelensky’s White House visit, translated by Oksana Lutsyshyna: https://www.arrowsmithpress.com/journal/crooked-runs-the-world
Poet, activist, and publisher Marjana Savka lives in Lviv. She has published twelve books of poetry and children’s literature. As editor-in-chief of Old Lion Publishers, she has brought out the work of Ernest Hemingway, Saul Bellow, Jorge Luis Borges, Stephen Hawking, Elizabeth Gilbert, and Sofia Andrukhoych. Savka is also a member of the Center for the Study of Young Adult and Children’s Literature. Her own work has been translated into half a dozen languages, including English, Russian, and Latvian. In 2003, she was awarded the Stus Prize for poetry.
Oksana Lutsyshyna is a Ukrainian writer, translator, and poet, and author of three novels, a collection of short stories, and five books of poetry, the latest published in English with Arrowsmith (Persephone Blues, 2019). For her latest novel, Ivan and Phoebe, published in English by Deep Vellum Publishing, she was awarded the Lviv City of Literature UNESCO Prize (2020) and the Taras Shevchenko National Award in fiction (2021). She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, and is currently an Associate Professor of Instruction in Ukrainian Studies at the The University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches the Ukrainian language and Eastern European literatures in translation.
