Ivan_Malkovych

Ivan Malkovych

Ivan Malkovych

Ukrainian poet and publisher


Ivan Antonovych Malkovych (Ukrainian: Іва́н Анто́нович Малко́вич; born 10 May 1961 in Nyzhnii Bereziv [uk], Ivano-Frankivsk[1]) is a noted Ukrainian poet[2] and publisher.[3] He is the proprietor of the publishing house "A-BA-BA-HA-LA-MA-HA", which specializes in high quality (often illustrated) editions of Ukrainian literature and poetry, and has been a winner of many industry awards.

Malkovych in 2014

Biography

He completed his studies as a violinist at the Music college in Ivano-Frankivsk before entering Kyiv University in 1978, where he majored in Ukrainian philology. He was noted by poet Dmytro Pavlychko who took him under his wing.

Malkovych was closely associated with the first Canadian-Ukrainian joint venture known as Kobza and was involved in the setting up of the Chervona Ruta festival of contemporary Music held in Chernivtsi in 1989.

Career

Malkovych published 6 collections of his own verse:

  • "White Stone" («Білий камінь» 1984)
  • "The Key" («Ключ» 1988)
  • "Poems" («Вірші» (1992)
  • "An Angel on my Shoulder" («Із янголом на плечі» 1997)
  • "Winter Poems" («Вірші на зиму» (2006)
  • "All that's near" («Все поруч» (2010)

References

  1. "Малкович Іван Антонович". Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Інститут енциклопедичних досліджень НАН України. Retrieved 2022-04-19.
  2. "Малкович Іван - Видавництво "А-БА-БА-ГА-ЛА-МА-ГА"" (in Ukrainian). Ababahalamaha.com.ua. Retrieved 2022-08-16.



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