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Children's & YA2020You and Malevich
by Oksana Sadovenko (Author), Oksana Sadovenko (Illustrator)
You and Malevich is a doodle book with creative tasks, stickers and pages to colour, which allows 5-to-13-years olds to imagine themselves being Kazemir Malevich’s students. Each spread page is dedicated to one of the major ideas of the artist and encourages children to create their own version of the Black Square, of Suprematist Composition, of the Houses of the Future proejct... while discovering primary elements, objectlessness, and overall understanding Malevich’s characters through personal engagement with the artist's works and techniques. This doodle book does not want to give comprehensive answers to children, and is instead designed to guide them on their own way to art. From 5 to 13 years Rightsholders: Alina Mekhed; alina@chasmaistriv.com.ua
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Children's & YA2018The Birthday of the Fir Tree
by Oksana Bula (Author), Oksana Bula (Illustrator)
All trees are born in summer. Fir trees are among them. The Fir tree Tukoni makes sure that they grow and get stronger for the winter. However, one tree sprouts in the middle of winter, and no one knows exactly where it will appear. No one except the partridge Tukoni. Yet, when this special tree is born, all the forest inhabitants celebrate its arrival. After all, this happens on a special day - the birthday of all the kind spirits of the forest: the Tukoni! This magnificent picture-book by famous Ukrainian artist Oksana Bula will invite young readers to a winter fairy tale and will teach children to care for nature together with the kind forest creatures, the Tukonis. From 3 to 6 years, 151 words Rightsholders: ivan.fedechko@starlev.com.ua
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Children's & YA2015Mr Catsky, Mira and the Sea
by Oksana Lushchevska (Author), Violetta Borigard (Illustrator)
Mira dreams about the sea, but it is so far away! One day an unusual guest visits her, and suddenly Mira begins an unexpected journey. Will it be adventurous? What will happen to Mira on the way? Will she manage to reach the sea? This bilingual Ukrainian-English picturebook tells a story of friendship, imagination, and what happens when one faces life's exciting and sometimes uneasy dilemmas. from 3 to 6 years, 1160 words (Ukrainian and English). Rightsholders: Oksana Luchchevska, olushchevska@gmail.com
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Children's & YA2017Mermaids
by Oksana Lushchevska (Author), Violetta Borigard (Illustrator)
Sonia and Nika are best friends. Yet, they live far away from each other: Nika lives on the left bank of the Dripro River and Sonia lives on the right one. To see each other more often the girls come up with a secret game. But sometimes, one of them feels sad. What would Nika do this time to make Sonia laugh? In this bilingual picturebook the readers will dive into a world of endless imagination, present in each child and grown-up as well. From 6 to 9 years, 1250 words (Ukrainian and English). Rightsholders: Oksana Luchchevska, olushchevska@gmail.com
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Poetry (Children's/YA)2015I Wish I Had a Little Horse!
by Oksana Krotiuk
Why does the giraffe wear a beautiful dress and nine necklaces, why does the leopard have spots, why ia the ocean called the Pacific? Curious kids will find answers to all these questions in the new book of Oksana Krotiuk's rhymes.
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Literature & Literary Studies2020The Wormwood. Selected essays
by Oksana Zabuzhko
This volume contains the most important essays by Oksana Zabuzhko written in the last two decades, devoted to figures and events that the author considers culturally significant for today's era of the crisis of humanism. "Feminine", "masculine" and "collective", all these "portraits" are united by the author's deeply personal experience of ongoing history in which she inscribes her characters — and thus reveals in it what, at least, seems to be catastrophic, a previously invisible life-affirming meaning.
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July 2020Nein, ich bin nicht müde! / Ja, ich will ins Bett!
by Oksana Bula, Oksana Bula, Thomas Weiler
Oksana Bulas "Nein, ich bin nicht müde! / Ja, ich will ins Bett!" ist ein innovatives Wende-Bilderbuch, das Kindern ab 3 Jahren auf unterhaltsame Weise das Thema Einschlafen näherbringt. Das Buch erzählt zwei charmante Geschichten aus dem Wald: Auf der einen Seite erfahren wir vom Bären, der den Winter erleben möchte und sich gegen den Winterschlaf wehrt, bis ihn die Müdigkeit doch einholt. Auf der anderen Seite begleiten wir den Wisent, der sich nichts sehnlicher wünscht, als die kalte Jahreszeit verschlafen zu können, obwohl seine Art keinen Winterschlaf hält. Durch die entgegengesetzten Perspektiven auf das Thema Schlaf und Ruhe regt das Buch zum Nachdenken und Diskutieren an. Illustriert mit traumhaft gezeichneten Szenen aus Wald und Natur, bietet dieses Werk der ukrainischen Illustratorin Oksana Bula nicht nur eine visuelle Bereicherung, sondern auch eine spielerische Herangehensweise an die Schlafenszeit, die Kinder und Eltern gleichermaßen anspricht. Innovatives Wende-Bilderbuch: Zwei Geschichten in einem Buch bieten doppelten Lesespaß und Abwechslung zur Schlafenszeit. Erziehungsthema Schlafen: Behandelt auf spielerische Weise Herausforderungen und Freuden rund um das Thema Einschlafen und bietet so einen idealen Anknüpfungspunkt für Eltern, um mit ihren Kindern über die Bedeutung von Ruhe und Schlaf zu sprechen. Faszinierende Tiercharaktere: Die Geschichten von Bär und Wisent laden mit ihren gegensätzlichen Wünschen und Erlebnissen zum Vergleich und zur Diskussion ein, wodurch Empathie und Verständnis bei jungen Zuhörern gefördert werden. Traumhafte Illustrationen: Die detailreichen und warmen Illustrationen laden zum Entdecken ein und machen das Buch zu einem visuellen Erlebnis. Vielfältige Einsatzmöglichkeiten: Eignet sich hervorragend zum Vorlesen, als Gute-Nacht-Geschichte und für Leseanfänger zur Förderung der Lesekompetenz. Diskussions- und Lernpotential: Bietet zahlreiche Gesprächsanlässe über Themen wie Zufriedenheit, das Streben nach Unmöglichem und gegenseitige Unterstützung.
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Literature: history & criticism2007Notre Dame d’Ukraine: Lesya Ukrainka in the Conflict of Mythologies
by Oksana Zabuzhko
One of Oksana Zabuzhko's most famous books, first published in 2007 and awarded many prestigious prizes, offers the reader an impressive intellectual journey through the ages, cultures and religions in search of "Ukraine we have lost." The key to it is the myth of Lesya Ukrainka - the least read and most dramatically underestimated writer from the pantheon of our national classics. This is not only a fundamental historical and cultural work but also an exquisite philological exegesis. It is also a warning book about the Ukrainian present - about how dearly a nation pays for the loss and oblivion of centuries-old culture.
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Children's & young adult fiction & true stories2019The Skeleton without a Closet
by Oksana Lushchevska
In life of every teenager there are moments of loneliness... Anya has practically no friends. Her classmates are constantly bullying her because of her body type. Anya's best friend Kira has moved to another town… The only joy for the girl is Science, Anatomy in particular. She dreams to become a Medical Expert, so she writes her blog on Anatomy. Anya also has a secret friend, who will always support, understand and console her. And he’ll probably help her to become more confident and popular among her classmates. The story by Oksana Lushchevska The Skeleton without a Closet describes the problems of bullying, soul searching and asserting opinion.
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Relationships1996Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex
by Oksana Zabuzhko
Called “the most influential Ukrainian book since independence,” Oksana Zabuzhko’s Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex became an international phenomenon when it shot to number one on the Ukrainian bestseller list and remained there throughout the 1990s. The sexual odyssey of the artist and poetess, unfolding in Ukraine and America at the end of the 20th century, turns into a true medieval mystery in which the heroine goes through the circles of recent Ukrainian history to meet the Devil face to face.
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Family & home stories (Children's/YA)2013The Other Home
by Oksana Lushchevska
The early 21st century. The humanity is on the verge of the apocalypse, or so they tell on every TV channel. But the mass psychosis sometimes covers up more important problems, so people don’t see the true collapse is looming over their private lives. The life of Polya and Artem, the protagonists of Oksana Lushchevska’s ‘The Other Home’, has divided into two parts – before and after their parents divorced. Now the kids have to build new relationships with their Mom and Dad separately. Can they do it? Can they make themselves at home at the other home? Can they accept new circumstances and overcome the challenges? And what’s more, will the teenage love be an obstacle or a driver of change?
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Biography: general2018TEURA. SOPHIA YABLONSKA
by Oksana Zabuzhko, foreword
"TEURA. SOFIA YABLONSKA" is a project that presents an outstanding Ukrainian female photographer, writer, traveler, and film documentarian Sophia Yablonska. It combines a photo album and 3 books of traveling prose from the literary heritage of Sofia Yablonska (1907-1971) Sophia was called "Theura" - a red bird - and thus recognized as female native of the island of Bora Bora, where she was one of the first to appear with a photo and film camera. In Indochina, Egypt, Ceylon, Bali, Tahiti, New Zealand - everywhere in the world, she filmed a "live" picture of life, and not fashionable productions at that time. The photo album, which was printed in Ukrainian and French (separate versions) with the support of the UKRAINIAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION, includes her photos from a trip around the world in the 1930s. Foreword - Oksana Zabuzhko (Kyiv) Photos from the archive of Natalie Udin, Yablonska's granddaughter (Paris) Biography: Veronika Khomenyuk and Andrii Benytskyi (Lviv) Photo captions: Natalka Beshta (Bangkok) Selection of illustrations and design (almost curators): Maria Norazyan and Ilya Pavlov, Grafprom studio (Kharkiv) Project manager: Lidia Likhach"
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Memoirs2021How the Cherry Orchard Was Cut Down, or the Long Road from Bad Ems
by Oksana Zabuzhko
This book commemorates Oksana Miyakovska-Radysh (1919–2020), a long-term archivist of the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences (UVAN) in New York. Her greatness lies in serving her cause with absolute freedom from complexes imposed by Russia and its culture. Reading this book is like flipping through an old family album in Miyakovska-Radysh's company. The book reveals numerous secrets. It turns out that Chekhov's Three Sisters were not just a figment of the writer's imagination. Moreover, Chekhov himself was a young man from then Ukrainian Taganrog, fond of his native Ukrainian language, theatre and one of the three sisters. The book also explores the connection between the "new woman" in Russian literature and the 19th-century Ukrainian women's movement and looks into the past mistakes that still have repercussions for Ukrainians today.
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Humanities & Social Sciences2017Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag
by Oksana Kis
Of the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian women were sentenced to the Gulag in the 1940s and 1950s, only half survived. In Survival as Victory, Oksana Kis has produced the first anthropological study of daily life in the Soviet forced labor camps as experienced by Ukrainian women prisoners. Based on the written memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories of over 150 survivors, this book fills a lacuna in the scholarship regarding Ukrainian experience. Kis details the women’s resistance to the brutality of camp conditions not only through the preservation of customs and traditions from everyday home life, but also through the frequent elision of regional and confessional differences. Following the groundbreaking work of Anne Applebaum’s Gulag: A History (2003), this book is a must-read for anyone interested in gendered strategies of survival, accommodation, and resistance to the dehumanizing effects of the Gulag.
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Fantasy & magical realism (Children's/YA)2021Kotyhoroshka. The Tangled Tales
by Valentyna Vzdulska, Oksana Luschevska
Modern authors often return to fairy tales to rethink them and create new texts that are the same tales, but in a new interpretation. Kotygoroshko comprises eight intricate fairy tales by Ukrainian female authors of children's books. Anastasia Lavrenishyna tells an alternative story of Kolobok, Halyna Tkachuk introduces readers to Olenka the Serpent, and Oksana Lushchevska tells the story of Marie, a wise girl with a high IQ. In her tale, Alina Stefan travels to the planet 581g to meet with Kira the Lame Duck, and Mia Marchenko takes her readers to Kiev Podil, where Mykyta the Tanner and Princess Anna save the city. Valentina Vzdulska will tell you the new story of Sirko and the Wolf, and Sasha Kochubey will introduce to you the new character of Kotygoroshko. Finally, there is Anya Khromova's parable about the heart in an iron chest.
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Literature & Literary Studies2020The Apocrypha. Four Conversations About Lesya Ukrainka
by Oksana Zabuzhko, His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk
This book was published to commemorate 150 years from the birth of the classic Ukrainian author Lesya Ukrainka. It is based on transcripts of conversations between Oksana Zabuzhko and His Beatitude Svyatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The works of Lesya Ukrainka, included in the second part of the book, are the main topic of their conversation, namely how the stories from evangelical and early Christian history formed the basis of her later work. Ukrainka's work was praised by the Soviet authorities for its socalled atheism but was censored from being staged in the theatres. Ukrainka's spiritual journey during the last twelve years of her life, her interpretation of the images of Judas and Christ, the cult of martyrdom, and the female role in the Christian context are thoroughly analysed in Zabuzhko and Shevchuk's conversations. Zabuzhko built a dialogue between Christianity, and what Soviet and post-Soviet critics called atheism that was in reality a conflict with synodal Orthodoxy.
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Children's & YA2014How Many?
by Halyna Kyrpa (Author), Olha Havrylova (Illustrator)
When children first explore the world, they usually ask many questions. You can try finding answers together with them by reading and looking through the picturebook Скільки?/ How many? The book's interesting questions and beautiful illustrations facilitate a friendly and joyful dialogue between adults and little readers. Скільки?/How many? was originally published as a bilingual picturebook with English and Ukrainian parallel text, which was also helpful for children learning languages. From 3 to 6 years, 199 words (Ukrainian and English) Rightsholders: Oksana Lushcevska, olushchevska@gmail.com
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Children's & YA2015A Coin
by Anna Khromova (Author), Anna Sarvira (Illustrator)
Little Romko lost his coin but he was not upset for long, since he acquired something much more valuable. This Ukrainian-English bilingual board book tells the story of the extraordinary in everyday life and shows how a bit of humour and imagination can turn a perfectly ordinary day into something unusual. From 3 to 6 years, 1686 words (English and Ukrainian bilingual edition) Rightsholders: Oksana Lushcevska, olushchevska@gmail.com
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Children's & YA2016Bison Looks for a Nest
by Oksana Bula (Author), Oksana Bula (Illustrator)
Once upon a time a bison met a bear. Winter was coming and he asked the bear where he could get food since everything was covered with snow. The bear answered that he didn’t eat in the winter. Instead he usually went into a deep sleep. Every year at the same time the Tukonis, the magical forest inhabitants, would put him to sleep in a den and wake him up at springtime. The bison was amazed. He had never slept all though the winter and couldn’t even imagine that other animals did. How wonderful it would be to sleep in a cozy nest rather than roam around in the snow searching for food! The bison decided that the Tukonis should put him to bed as well. From 3 to 6 years, 407 words Rightsholders: ivan.fedechko@starlev.com.ua
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Children's & YA2016The Swing under the Maple Tree
by Halyna Tkachuk (Author), Oksana Bula (Illustrator)
Nina is playing on a swing and looking forward to the summer. However, it turns out that there will be neither flowers in the flowerbeds nor any blue dolphins in the sea this summer. And all because of Nina’s carelessness! There’s no reason to despair, though. With a little bit of effort, and the help of other characters in this picture book, Nina will not only save the summer, but also achieve something very special. This book and charming illustrations, originally published in bilingual edition (Ukrainian-English) will appeal to both children and their parents. From 3 to 6 years, 785 words (Ukrainian and English). Rightsholders: olushchevska@gmail.com
