...Marjana Savka’s poems ― lyrical, exuberant, but underwritten by a tough-minded skepticism... sum up this middle generation’s difficult and lasting achievement.
— Tom Sleigh
 

Marjana Savka

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One of Ukraine’s leading women of letters, poet, activist, and publisher, Marjana Savka lives in Lviv. She has published twelve books of poetry and children’s literature.  As editor-in-chief of Old Lion Publishers, she has brought out the work of Ernest Hemingway, Saul Bellow, Jorge Luis Borges, Stephen Hawking, Elizabeth Gilbert, and Sofia Andrukhoych. Savka is also a member of the Center for the Study of Young Adult and Children’s Literature. Her own work has been translated into half a dozen languages, including English, Russian, and Latvian. In 2003 she was awarded the Stus Prize for poetry.