Poet
Ivan Malkovych
Ivan Malkovych
(Ukraine, 1961)
Biography
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.
At the end of the 1990’s Malkovych started publishing children’s books in Ukrainian. He stopped writing poetry. “I do the noblest work you can imagine,” he says. “I publish the best Ukrainian children’s books in the world.”
© Andriy Bondar (Translated by Vasyl Pawlowsky)
BibliographyBilyj Kamin’ (White Stone), poems, 1984
Kliuch (The Key), poems, 1988
Virshi (Poems), poems, 1992
Z Yanholom na Plechi (With an Angel on My Shoulder), poems, 1997
Websites on Malkovych
Malkovych’s home page
Language: Ukrainian
Poetyka
Collection of poems in the original
Language: Ukrainian
Interview in Mirror Weekly
Language: Ukrainian
Interview in Mirror Weekly
Language: Russian
Poems
Poems of Ivan Malkovych
Sponsors
Partners
LantarenVenster – Verhalenhuis Belvédère