Mykola Riabchuk

Mykola Riabchuk studied at Maxim Gorky Literature Institute and Lviv Polytechnic. The recorded working language is Ukrainian, English and Russian. Places of work recorded in the authority are Kyiv. Employment is recorded with Instytut politychnykh i etnonat͡sionalʹnykh doslidz͡henʹ Ukraïny. Distinctions recorded are Antonovych prize, Shevchenko National Prize and Bene Merito.

• Name — Mykola Riabchuk • Native Name — Микола Рябчук • Born — 27 September 1953 • Birthplace — Lutsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) • Occupation — Public intellectual, journalist, political analyst, literary critic, translator, writer • Spouse — Natalka Bilotserkivets (poet) • Awards — Shevchenko National Prize

Riabchuk was born in Lutsk in western Ukraine. He studied engineering at Lviv Polytechnic. He was a member of the literary group around Hryhoriy Chubay with whom he authored the samizdat literary almanach "Skrynya", for which he was expelled from the university. Consequently, he took different jobs including working for the railway, theater electrician, etc. In 1988 Riabchuk graduated from Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow. From 1985 till 1994 Riabchuk worked as an editor of the "Vsesvit" journal dedicated to translations of literature from foreign languages. In the 1990s Riabchuk was the editor of Suchasnist magazine, which published new Ukrainian literature, he is responsible for bringing several now famous Ukrainian writers to the broad audience. Riabchuk was one of the founders of the Krytyka magazine. Since 1997 he is a member of the Association of Ukrainian Writers. Writes a weekly column for "Gazeta po-ukrayinsky". Riabchuk is currently a research fellow at the Ukrainian Center for Cultural Studies in Kyiv. In 2005 he received a Candidate Degree in Political Science at the Institute for Political and Ethnic Studies National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Mykola Riabchuk is recorded as having received Antonovych prize, Shevchenko National Prize and Bene Merito.