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Author Biography

Oksana Zabuzhko (born in 1960 in Lutsk) is a renowned Ukrainian writer, author of more than twenty books. She studied philosophy at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. In the early 1990s, she lectured at the Harvard University, Pennsylvania University, and Pittsburgh University (USA). Her novel Fieldwork on Ukrainian Sex has been hailed as “the most influential Ukrainian book since independence.” Zabuzhko’s works have been widely translated. She is the winner of numerous prestigious awards and prizes, including the Angelus Prize, the Shevchenko National Prize, and the BBC Ukraine Book of the Year Award. Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk was born on May 5, 1970, in Stryi, Lviv oblast. He studied at the Don Bosco Center for Philosophical and Theological Studies in Buenos Aires and the Lviv Theological Seminary. In 1994 he was ordained. Since June 2007, he has been the Rector of the Lviv Theological Seminary of the Holy Spirit and the Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin in Buenos Aires since April 2010. On March 23, 2011, he was elected Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church by the Electoral Synod of Bishops of the UGCC. On March 25, he was blessed by Pope Benedict XVI. In 2021, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the III Century.