Ivan Malkovych (10.05.1961)
Photography by Oleh Derzky
Ivan Malkovych is a Ukrainian poet and publisher.
Born May 10th, 1961 in Bereziv Nyzhniy in Ivano-Frankivsk region.
He graduated from the violin class of the Ivano-Frankivsk Music Academy and from the Faculty of Philology at the Taras Shevchenko State University of Kyiv. Ivan Malkovych has been the member of the Writer’s Union of Ukraine since 1986.
He is the author of seven poetry collections: “The White Stone” (1984), “The Key” (1988), “Poems” (1992), “With an Angel on My Shoulder” (1997), “Poems for Winter” (2006), “All is Near” (2010, 2011 – 2-nd complemented edition), “The Plantain” (2013).
Ivan Malkovych is the editor, compiler, author and a translator of dozens of books for children. “He is a man, maniacally devoted to the idea of “the Ukrainian book of especially good quality”. (The Book Review, №1, 2002).
Poems of Ivan Malkovych have been translated into English, German, Italian, Russian, Polish, Bengali, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Georgian, Slovak, Slovenian languages.
Published by A-BA-BA-HA-LA-MA-HA in Ukrainian
- "The ABC" (compilation and poems), 1999, 2000—2012
- "The Little Golden Spider", 1997, 2009
- "The Little Wolf, who swam out to sea (Ukr. edition)" "Вовченятко, яке запливло далеко в море" (in collaboration), 2002—2012
- "The Christmas Glove", 2004, 2009
- "Lisa and her Dreams (Ukr. edition)" "Ліза та її сни", 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009—2012
- "A Small Bunny in the Big City or HONEY for MOMMY" (Ukr. edition)" "Велике місто, маленький зайчик, або Мед для мами", 2007, 2008, 2009—2012
- "Favorite Poems" a TWO-VOLUME edition (compilation, translations and rehashes), 1994, 2000—2012
- "100 Fairy Tales. Vol. 1" a THREE-VOLUME edition (literary editing and compilation), 2005—2012
Published by A-BA-BA-HA-LA-MA-HA in English
- "A Small Bunny in the Big City or HONEY for MOMMY", 2007
- "Lisa and her Dreams", 2012
- "The Little Wolf, who swam out to sea", 2012
