Vira Vovk
Vira Ostapivna Selianska was a Ukrainian writer, critic and translator. She wrote in Ukrainian, German and Portuguese.
Biography
Born in Boryslav in 1926, she grew up in the Hutsul region in the town of Kuty. Vira Vovk's secondary education was completed in Lviv and Dresden. She studied Germanics, music history and comparative literature at the University of Tübingen. In 1945, she emigrated with her mother to Portugal and in 1949, further to Brazil. She went to Rio de Janeiro where she completed her university studies. Post graduate studies were completed at Columbia University and Munich University.Vovk received a PhD and became professor of German literature at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. Vovk has created ten collections of poetry, ten novels, and eleven plays and has made numerous translations of Western writers into Ukrainian and Ukrainian writers into Portuguese.
Vovk died on 16 July 2022 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at the age 96.