Ivan Malkovych
Ivan Antonovych Malkovych (Ukrainian: Іван Антонович Малкович; born 10 May 1961) is a noted Ukrainian poet and publisher. 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. Laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize in 2017.
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Ivan Malkovych
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- Born
- 1961. · Nyzhnii Bereziv.
- Nationality
- Ukraine.
- Occupation
- publisher, writer and poet.
- Education
- Faculty of Philology of the State University of Kyiv.
- Honours
- Order of the Smile, Shevchenko National Prize, Honorary Diploma of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, Order of Merit (Ukraine) and 3rd class.
- Languages
- Ukrainian.
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Ivan Antonovych Malkovych (Ukrainian: Іван Антонович Малкович; born 10 May 1961) is a noted Ukrainian poet and publisher. 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. Laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize in 2017.
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Ivan Malkovych (born 1961) is an Ukrainian children's writer, poet and publisher, among other activities. The children's writer was born in Nyzhnii Bereziv. Ivan Malkovych is a member of National Writers' Union of Ukraine.
Languages used include Ukrainian. The children's writer received Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class, Order of the Smile and Shevchenko National Prize.
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Ivan Malkovych studied at Faculty of Philology of the State University of Kyiv. The recorded working language is Ukrainian. Distinctions recorded are Order of the Smile, Shevchenko National Prize, Honorary Diploma of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class.
Malkovych was born in Nyzhnii Bereziv, Ivano-Frankivsk. 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.
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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)
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Order of the Smile (2004, Poland). Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine of 2017 — for the book of poetry "Podorozhnyk with New Poems"
Koronatsiya Slova 2013 literature awards ceremony, Kiev, Ukraine
Andriy Makukha
Koronatsiya Slova 2013 literature awards ceremony, Kiev, Ukraine
Andriy Makukha
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- 1.Малкович Іван :: Біографія, Вірші, поезія. Клуб поезії.
- 2.Ababahalamaha.com.ua. Малкович Іван - Видавництво "А-БА-БА-ГА-ЛА-МА-ГА".
- 3.Committee for the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine.
- 4.Інститут енциклопедичних досліджень НАН України. Малкович Іван Антонович. Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine.
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