George S. N. Luckyj
Ukrainian writer and historian (1919–2001)
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George Stephen Nestor Luckyj (born Юрій Луцький, transcribed: Yuriy Lutskyy; Yanchyn, now Ivanivka, Lviv Oblast , 1919 — Toronto , November 22, 2001) was a scholar of Ukrainian literature , who greatly contributed to the awareness of Ukrainian literature in the English-speaking world and to the continuation of legitimate scholarship on the subject during the post-war period.
Biography
Luckyj was born in 1919 in the village Yanchyn, today Ivanivka [ uk ] , close to Lviv . His father was Ostap Luckyj , a Ukrainian modernist poet and member of the Polish Senate, and his mother was Irena Smal-Stotska , the child of Stephan Smal-Stotsky , a Ukrainian philologist and Austrian parliament member.
After studying German literature at the University of Berlin , he fortunately went to England right before World War II for a summer program at Cambridge University. After the Soviet occupation of Western Ukraine , formerly Poland , in 1939, his father was taken by the NKVD and eventually died in a concentration camp. In 1943, Lucky joined the British army and worked as a Russian interpreter in occupied Germany .
In 1947, he moved to Saskatoon , Canada for a position teaching English literature at the University of Saskatchewan . After two years he moved to New York to pursue a doctorate at Columbia University . His Ph.D. dissertation became the key Ukrainian literary scholarly text, Literary Politics in the Soviet Ukraine, 1917–1934 . He also participated in the activities of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences , an important scholarly institution begun by Ukrainian émigrés in New York.
He became a professor at the University of Toronto and was involved in the creation of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies and Canadian Association of Slavists . His writing, both scholarly and of translation, was prodigious until his death in 2001.
Awards
- Antonovych prize (1998)
Translations
Luckyj was well known for his translations of Ukrainian literature, which have exposed large new audiences to its depth and quality.
- The Hunters and the Hunted , Ivan Bahrianyi (1954, 1956)
- Iwan Majstrenko's Borotbism: A Chapter in the History of Ukrainian Communism (1954)
- Elie Borschak's Hryhor Orlyk: France's Cossack General (1956)
- Dmytro Doroshenko's "Survey of Ukrainian Historiography" (1957)
- Mykola Khvyliovy 's Stories from the Ukraine (1960)
- Hryhory Kostiuk's Stalinist Rule in the Ukraine: A Decade of Mass Terror (1960) Internet
- George Y. Shevelov's Syntax of Modern Literary Ukrainian (1963)
- A Little Touch of Drama by Valerian Pidmohylny (1972)
- Panteleimon Kulish 's Black Council (1973)
- Mykola Kulish 's Sonata Pathètique (1975)
- Yevhen Sverstiuk 's Clandestine Essays (1976)
- Mykhailo Kotsiubyns'kyi 's Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1981)
- Pavlo Zaitsev's Taras Shevchenko: A Life (1988)
References
- Luckyj, George S.N. ([1956] 1990). Literary Politics in the Soviet Ukraine, 1917–1934 , revised and updated edition. Durham NC: Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-1099-6
- Thomas M. Prymak, "The Generation of 1919: Pritsak, Luckyj, and Rudnytsky." In The Ukrainian Weekly
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- George S. N. Luckyj archival papers held at the University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services
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