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Ivan Malkovych

Side by side

At Home

Again I’ll visit for a day or two,
won’t help with anything again,
nervous, distracted conversations
will just distress my parents.

What will I find next time
I come? Everyone there?
As I leave: father and mother in the window
like Hutsul icons on glass.

© Translation: 2000, Bohdan Boychuk and Myrosia Stefaniuk
From: A Hundred Years of Youth: A Bilingual Anthology of 20th Century Ukrainian Poetry
Publisher: Litopys, Lviv, 2000

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Ivan Malkovych

(Ukraine, 1961)

An Ukrainian poet and publisher, Ivan Malkovych was born on May 10, 1961 in Nyzhniy Bereziv (Ivano-Frankivsk oblast, Ukraine). In 1985 he graduated from the Faculty of Philology from Kiev University, and started working as a literary editor for children’s publishers. In 1992 he founded the first privately owned children’s publisher “A-BA-BA-HA-LA-MA-HA”. He lives and works in Kiev.

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© 2000, Bohdan Boychuk and Myrosia Stefaniuk
From: A Hundred Years of Youth: A Bilingual Anthology of 20th Century Ukrainian Poetry
Publisher: 2000, Litopys, Lviv

At Home

© 2000, Bohdan Boychuk and Myrosia Stefaniuk
From: A Hundred Years of Youth: A Bilingual Anthology of 20th Century Ukrainian Poetry
Publisher: 2000, Litopys, Lviv