Teodozia Zarivna

• Name — Teodozia Zarivna • Native Name — Теодозія Петрівна Зарівна • Born — 22 June 1951 • Birthplace — Rydoduby, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union • Occupation — Writer, poet, playwright, journalist, theatre critic, translator, chief editor for the literary magazine Kyiv • Language — Ukrainian • Education — The Ivan Franko National University of Lviv • Genre — Poetry, fiction, short story, play, essay, translation • Awards — The Vasyl Symonenko Literary Award (1992); The Volodymyr Svidzynskyi Literary Prize (2010); The Dmytro Nytchenko Prize (2014); The Yaroslaviv Val Literary Prize (2015)

Teodozia Petrivna Zarivna was born in 1951 in the village of Rydoduby in the Ternopil Oblast of Western Ukraine. She is a poet, essayist, novelist, playwright, journalist, translator, literary and theatre critic, writer and host of literary and cultural TV programs. She graduated from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Philology faculty, 1973) and Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University (Theatre Studies faculty, 1979). She worked at Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater in Kyiv and at National Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine (UA:PBC). Teodozia Zarivna is an author and hostess for many literary series and cultural programs, among them "A Literary Studio", "The Fundamental", "In the Beginning Was the Word", "Not by Only Bread...". She has taken part in the International Literary Festivals: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (2008), Sofia, Bulgaria (2013), Chișinău, Moldova (2014), Poznań, Poland (2016), Brno, Olomouc, Prague, Czech Republic (2016) Vilnius, Lithuania (2017), and also has participated in the International Science Conference in Brno, Czech Republic (2015). Zarivna has translated from Polish into Ukrainian a theatrical play Requiem for the Mistress by Wieslaw Mysliwski, and also poems of Urszula Koziol, Maria Duszka, Danuta Bartosh, Yuzef Baran, Stanislav Baranchak, Kazimierz Burnat, Carl Grenzler, Pavel Kuszczinsky, Romuald Meczkowsky, Tomasz Jastrun, and others. Her translation from English into Ukrainian of Arthur Miller's play All My Sons was premiered in July 2017 at the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater in Kyiv. She is the author of five books of poetry, among them Acting On a Circle (1991), Provincial Thoughts (2009), Out of Ashes and Metal (2011). She has also published four novels including The Hunt For the Sky Birds (2014), which won the Yaroslaviv Val Literary Prize (2015) in Ukraine, two theatrical plays, and many documentary movie scripts. Her literary works have been translated into English, German, Portuguese, Macedonian, Polish, Czech, Russian, and Romanian. Teodozia Zarivna has won a number of literary prizes such as the Vasyl Symonenko Poetry Prize (1992), the Berezil Magazine First Prize (1999 and 2004), the Courier of Kryvbas Magazine Literary Prize (2003 and 2006), the Volodymyr Svidzynskyi Poetry Prize (2010), the Dmytro Nytchenko Prize for popularization of Ukrainian literature (2014), and others. As of 2014, she lives in Kyiv. Since November 2014, Teodozia Zarivna has been the chief editor for the literary magazine Kyiv in Ukraine.

• Acting on a Circle (1991, Ukraine) • A Watcher For an Abandoned Paradise (1997, Ukraine) • The Motherland in the Coat of Arms (2004, Ukraine) • Provincial Thoughts (2009, Ukraine) • Out of Ashes and Metal (2011, Ukraine) • Poesias (2016, Brazil)

• Stones Growing Among Us (1999) • A Straw Paradise (2001) • A Willow Board (2008) • The Hunt For the Sky Birds (2014)

• A Girl Out of a Sweet Cherry (2003) • A Lake in the Fog (2006) • Notes on the Skirt Hem (2010) • Ascent to Kaiserwald (2017)

• Confession for Everyone • Theatre (translation into Ukrainian and playscript based on the novel by Somerset Maugham) • The North Wind for Don Juan

• Cathedral • Olzhych's Return • Two Lives of Iryna Wilde • The Road of Viacheslav Chornovil • The Cossacks' Generations Live On... Oleksandr Ilchenko • Orpheus From Marianivka • Marko Vovchok, the Fatal Woman • The Face of Freedom