Shovkun Ihor

1. Shovkun Ihor

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2. BIOGRAPHY

Ukrainian translator, writer, editor.
Was born in 1940 in the village Manchenko near Kharkiv.
Graduated from the Kharkiv Hydrometeorological College, worked for two years in
Siberia.
After that he entered Moscow State University, graduated from the basic course
(1967) and the post-graduate studies (1970) at the Faculty of Philology of the
Moscow State University, Department of Structural and Applied Linguistics.
He knew six foreign languages - English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and
Russian.
Most of them he studied by himself.

3. Rewards

Laureate of the first Lukash Award "Ars Translationis" for the best translation
that were published in the magazine "Vsesvit" (1989, for translation from the
English novel "The Creation of the World" by Gorda Vidal).
Laureate of the Skovoroda Award 2004, which the French Embassy notes is the
best translation of the year from French into Ukrainian (Michel Foucault's
book "Archeology of Knowledge," the title "Fundamentals").
Laureate of the Maxim Rylsky 2009 Award of the National Union of Writers of
Ukraine for the best translation of the year.

4. CREATIVE WORK Most Famous Translations:

from English – «Henderson the Rain King» by Saul Bellow , "Creation"
Gor Vidal, the stories of Agatha Christie and Edgar Po, «St.Ives»
Robert Lewis Stevenson, «Lisey's story» by Stephen King, «The Da
Vinci Codе»by Dan Brown, «The Illumination» by Jill Gregory and
Karen Tintori, «Encyclopedia of Postmodernism» edited by Victor E.
Taylor and Charles Vinquist, works by Jean Calvin and Martin Luther,
George Orwell's "1984", short stories from the Scottish Fiction series;

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