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The legendary Ukrainian lyric poet Lina Kostenko is 92 and still going strong. “We truly only value our life if we have something far more important, far more precious than the life itself,” she has said. Clearly her time is now.
Sep 14, 2022 · Lina Kostenko. Two Poems Translated by Simon Patlis. September 14, 2022. PIGEONS OF LVIV. А flat black shape is swiftly falling down, — The shadow of a white ascending pigeon. A meeting place for birds, — the overhang. That crowns the sober lines of the cathedral. A colorful medley of streets and crowds.
Kostenko, Lina [Костенко, Ліна], b 19 March 1930 in Rzhyshchiv, Kyiv oblast. (Photo: Lina Kostenko .) Poet; one of the earliest and most outstanding of the shistdesiatnyky, the Soviet Ukrainian writers of the post- Stalinist thaw. She studied at the Kyiv Pedagogical Institute and graduated from the Gorky Institute of Literature in Moscow in 1956.
Lina Kostenko — poetess of the Sixtiers, writer, conscience of the nation — was born in the town of Rzhyshchiv on March 19, 1930. Her poetry is honest, emotional, sometimes ironic; her language is bright, modern; her thought is deep and comprehensive. She writes simply about the complex and complicated. Sincerely — about the intimate and veiled.
Apr 26, 2016 · Poetry. Chernobyl Poems. By Lina Kostenko. Translated from Ukrainian by Uilleam Blacker. April 26, 2016. Ukraine Natural Disasters. The Chernobyl disaster of 1986 had huge significance for Ukraine, the Soviet Union, and the wider world.
Oct 13, 2016 · Lina Kostenko was born in Kiev on March 19, 1930. She was part of the shistdesiatnyky (The Sixtiers), the literary generation known for their liberal and anti-totalitarian views. They began to...
