Ukrainian Writer Wins Poetry Prize in USA
Ukrainian writer, artist and translator Daryna Gladun has won the Billy Maich Prize from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, USA.
The Gaze reports on this with reference to the Chitomo edition.
It is noted that the prize is awarded to students or graduates of the university for outstanding achievements in poetry. Participants can submit no more than five poems of up to 250 lines.
The Ukrainian writer was awarded for her poems written in English, which will be published on the website of the Academy of American Poets.
The University of Notre Dame is a private Catholic elite university founded in 1842 by French priest Edward Sorin. Currently, about 10 thousand students are enrolled in the institution. It is one of the top twenty universities in the United States.
Daryna Gladun, writer, translator, and literary journalist, is one of the first researchers of the phenomenon of poetic performance in Ukraine.
She is the author of the collections Chopping Down a Tree, Radio War, The War Won't Start Tomorrow, and more. In 2020, her collection From the Shadows of Beautiful Red Boys was named one of the best by PEN Ukraine.
Gladun's critical articles, reviews and commentaries have been published in the literary magazines Berezil, Context, the newspapers Den, Proskuriv, and Chitomo.