Ihor Pavlyuk


Ihor Pavlyuk is a Ukrainian writer, translator and research worker. Named People's Poet of Ukraine in 2020.
He is the winner of a 2015 English PEN Award, and the winner of the Switzerland Literary Prize 2021.
He also holds a doctorate in Social Communication, professor.
Ihor Pavlyuk is a member of the English PEN and member of the European Society of Authors, Honorary Chancellor of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies in the USA.
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Life and career

Ihor Pavlyuk was born in the Volyn region on January 1, 1967. His mother died ten days after giving birth to him. He was raised by his grandfather and grandmother on his mother's side, both of whom were migrant peasants from the Helm region. Ihor Pavlyuk's family on his father's side, also from Volyn, was repressed for participating in the national liberation struggle, sent to a special settlement at Kiselyovsk in 1947 and rehabilitated in 1991.
He studied at the Saint Petersburg military engineering-technical university, which he left to pursue his career as a writer. As a result he was sentenced to a period of hard labour in the Taiga but continued to write as best he could, driven by a nostalgia for his Ukrainian homeland, until he was freed when the Soviet Union fell.
In 1992 Ihor Pavlyuk graduated from the Department of Journalism at Lviv University and worked as a correspondent for religious press and radio in Lviv.
He has participated in various international literary festivals, including Estonia, Georgia, Russia, Belarus, Germany, Italy, the United States, Poland, Turkey, Ireland, Pakistan, England, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Austria.
Ihor Pavlyuk is presently a Leading Researcher at the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv, Professor of Ukrainian media at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, a member of the editorial boards of literary, art and scientific magazines: "Золота пектораль", "Дзвін", "Українська літературна газета", "Вісник Львівського університету".
Works of Ihor Pavlyuk have been translated into Russian, Belarusian, Polish, English, French, Chinese, Latvian, Bulgarian, Japanese, Italian, and other languages and published in such magazines as "Acumen", "The Apple Valley Review", "Muddy River Poetry Review", "Asymptote", "Gold Dust", "The Adirondack Review", "The Recusant", "Metamorphoses", "Eurasia Review", "The world poets quarterly", "The Guardian", "Critical Muslim", "Spillwords press", "Of Poets & Poetry", Chinese magazines "Fleurs des lettres", «Foreign literature and art », journal of Ukrainian poetry in English, Hindi and Ukrainian language “Uyava Chronicle”, «Sunflowers Rising: Poems For Peace Anthology» and many others.
Ihor Pavlyuk is the protagonist of the film "Between Bug and God" and film "Voice".
The work of Ihor Pavlyuk is included in the official school curriculum with Ukrainian literature.
Ihor Pavlyuk is engaged in charitable activities.
The book of Ihor Pavlyuk "A Flight over the Black Sea" became the winning book within Writers in Translation competition by English PEN club. Academia.edu has included book "A Flight over the Black Sea" in the authoritative list “The Greatest Great Books List Ever”.
On 9 June 2024, Ihor Pavlyuk spoke at the National Federation of State Poetry Societies of the United States of America. and in 2025 he became co-editor and author of the foreword to its international poetry anthology "Sunflowers Rising": Peace Poems Anthology: by Poets for Peace", the proceeds of which go to help orphaned children..
Ihor Pavlyuk is married. His wife Lyudmyla Pavlyuk (Ukrainian: Павлюк Людмила Степанівна is Associate Professor at Department of Journalism of Lviv University. They have two daughters and a grandson.

Selected publications (books)

Poetry

Islands of youth, 1990, Not this of place wind, 1993, Voice of daily Moon, 1994, Glass tavern, 1995, Allergy to eternity , 1999, Disaster, 2002, Masculine fortunetelling, 2002, The angel English language? , 2004, Magma, 2005, Rebellion, 2006, The Tuning Fork, 2007, Lyrics, 2008, Ukraine at smoke, 2009, Stratosphere, 2010, Catching Gossamers, 2011, Confessions of the last sorcerer, 2012, Masculine fortunetelling, 2013, Teamster,, 2014, Погонщик, A Flight over the Black Sea,, 2014, Game and Battle, 2014, Magma of Polissya., The Pilgrim: A verse novel, 2018. Crack, 2019, Salt : Selected Poems, Carrier of dreams, 2019, Black flax, 2019, Arthania: Selected Poems,, 2020 : a book of spiritual lyrics, 2021, Cossack Mamay Dance: Poems of 2017-2022, 2023, Turf: Lyrics'', 2025,

Prose

Biography of the tree of tribe of poets, 2003, Forbidden Bloom, 2007, Out of Range, 2012, Cultivation of Diamonds, 2016, Mesozoic, 2018, The Bug, 2020, Vacuum, 2022, Unity with God. Notes of the poet Ihor Pavlyuk: The first book, 2023, Unity with God. Notes of the poet Ihor Pavlyuk: The second book, 2024,

Drama

The Medium. History of Ukraine in dramatic poem, 2024,

Monographs

Writer – Power – Press: historical and typological analysis, 1997, Diagnostics and prognosis of lie: digressions in the theory of communication, 2003, There are writers in a press, 2010, Intimate breath of the era. Articles, reviews, interviews. — Volume 1. , 2017,.Intimate breath of the era. Articles, reviews, interviews. — Volume 2. , 2017,.Intimate breath of the era. Articles, reviews, interviews. — Volume 3. , 2017,.Ukrainian literary journalism 1920-2000 s: Monograph 2019,.Stories of emotions: About texts and life texts of modern writers .Intimate breath of the era. Articles, interviews. — Volume 4. , 2022,.

Book for children

The Flying Cauldron, 2003, Flute: Poems for Schoolchildren , 2017,.

Awards