Vira Vovk

Vira Vovk studied at University of Tübingen, Columbia University and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. The recorded working language is Ukrainian, German and English. The field of work recorded is German studies, translation and poetry. Employment is recorded with Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Distinctions recorded are Order of Princess Olga, 3rd class, Shevchenko National Prize and Ivan Koshelivets International Literary Prize.

Born in Boryslav in 1926, she grew up in the Hutsul region in the town of Kuty (at that time on the Polish-Romanian border). Vira Vovk's secondary education was completed in Lviv and Dresden. She studied Germanics, music history and comparative literature at the University of Tübingen. In 1945, she emigrated with her mother to Portugal and in 1949, further to Brazil. She went to Rio de Janeiro where she completed her university studies. Post graduate studies were completed at Columbia University (New York City) and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Vovk received a PhD and became professor of German literature at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Vovk has created ten collections of poetry, ten novels, and eleven plays and has made numerous translations of Western writers into Ukrainian and Ukrainian writers into Portuguese. Vovk died on 16 July 2022 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at the age 96.