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Independent Ukraine and National Identity (in English)

HISTORY

The gates of Europe: A history of UkraineNY: Basic Books, 2015. 395 p.
Our others: Stories of Ukrainian diversity. Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag, 2021. 162 p.
Revolutionary Ukraine 1917-2017: History's flashpoints and today's memory wars. Milton: Routledge, 2019. 205 p.
Towards an intellectual history of Ukraine: An anthology of Ukrainian thought from 1710 to 1995Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. 420 p.
Ukraine: Contested nationhood in a European contextNY: Routledge, 2020. 121 p.
Ukraine and Europe: Cultural encounters and negotiationsToronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. 461 p.
Ukraine and Russia: Representations of the pastToronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. 391 p.
Ukraine and Russia: From civilized divorce to uncivil war. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 282 p. 
Ukraine and Russia in their historical encounterEdmonton, Canada: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1992. 346 p.
Ukraine and Russia: The post-Soviet transitionLanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. 237 p. 
Ukraine between the EU and Russia. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 148 p.
Ukraine in histories and stories: Essays by Ukrainian intellectualsStuttgart: Ibidem Verlag, 2020. 272 p.

CULTURE

Contemporary Ukraine on the cultural map of Europe. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2009. 471 p.

LITERATURE

A history of Ukrainian literature: From the 11th to the end of the 19th centuryNY: Ukrainian Academic Press, 1997 (2nd ed.). 815 p.
The post-Chornobyl library: Ukrainian postmodernism of the 1990sBrookline, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2019. 320 p. 
Ukraine's quest for identity: Embracing cultural hybridity in literary imagination 1991-2011Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2018. 275 p.
Words for war: New poems from UkraineBoston: Academic Studies Press, 2017. 240 p.

SOCIETY

Ukraine after the Euromaidan: Challenges and hopes. Switzerland: Peter Lang, 2015. 271 p.
Ukraine on its way to Europe: Interim results of the orange revolution. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2009. 331 p.
Ukraine, the EU and Russia: History, culture and international relations. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 186 p.
War and memory in Russia, Ukraine and BelarusCham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 506 p.

 

Post-Soviet Ukrainian Literary Works in English Translation

NOVELS

Andrukhovych, Yuri. Perverzion / trans. by Michael M. Naydan. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2005. 326 p.
---------------. The Moscoviad / trans. by Vitaly Chernetsky. Brooklyn, NY: Spuyten Duyvil, 2008. 198 p.
Belorusets, Yevgenia. Lucky breaks / trans. by Eugene Ostashevsky. NY: New Directions, 2022. 109 p.
Dibrova, Volodymyr. Peltse and Pentameron / trans. by Halyna Hryn. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1996. 198 p.
Kurkov, Andrey. Grey bees / trans. by Boris Dralyuk. Dallas, TX: Deep Bellum, 2022. 360 p.
Lyubka, Andriy. Carbide / trans. by Kate Tsurkan. London: Jantar Publishing, 2022. 250 p.
Maljartschuk, Tanja. A biography of a chance miracle / trans. by Zenia Tompkins. [s.l.]: Cadmus Press, 2018. 246 p.
Matios, Maria. Sweet Darusya: A tale of two villages / trans. by Michael M. Naydan and Olha Tytarenko. Brooklyn, NY: Spuyten Duyvil, 2019. 224 p.
Rafeyenko, Volodymyr. Mondegreen: Songs about death and love / trans. by Mark Andryczyk. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 176 p.
Vynnychuk, Yuri. The fantastic worlds of Yuri Vynnychuk / trans. Michael M. Naydan, Askold Melnyczuk and Mark Andryczyk. London: Glagoslav Publications, 2019. 269 p.
----------------. The windows of time frozen and other stories / trans. by Oksana Tatsyak. Lviv, Ukraine: Klasyka Publishers, 2000.
Zabuzhko, Oksana. Fieldwork in Ukrainian sex / trans. by Halyna Hryn. Las Vegas, NV: AmazonCrossing, 2011. 164 p.
---------------. Your ad could go here: Stories / trans. by Halyna Hryn, Askold Melnyczuk, Nina Murray, Marta Horban and Marco Carynnyk. Las Vegas, NV: AmazonCrossing, 2020. 252 p.
Zhadan, Serhiy. The orphanage: A novel /  trans. by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. 336 p.
---------------. Voroshilovgrad / trans. by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler. Dallas, TX: Deep Vellum Publishing, 2016. 445 p.

POEMS

Andrukhovych, Yuri. Songs for a dead rooster: Selected poemstrans. by Vitaly Chernetsky. Sandpoint, ID: Lost Horse Press, 2018. 123 p.
Bilotserkivets, Natalka. Eccentric days of hope and sorrow: Selected poems / trans. by Ali Kinsella and Dzvinia Orlowsky. Sandpoint, ID: Lost Horse Press, 2021. 201 p.
Izdryk, Yuri. Smokes: Poems / trans. by Roman Ivashkiv and Erin Moure. Sandpoint, ID: Lost Horse Press, 2019. 103 p.
Shuvalova, Iryna. Pray to the empty wells: Poems / trans. by Olena Jennings. Sandpoint, ID: Lost Horse Press, 2019. 159 p.
Starovoyt, Iryna. A field of foundlings: Selected poems / trans. by Grace Mahoney. Sandpoint, ID: Lost Horse Press, 2017. 75 p.
Zhadan, Serhiy. What we live for, what we die for: Selected poems / trans. by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phips. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. 160 p.

AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

Sentsov, Oleg. Life went on anyway: Stories / trans. by Uilleam Blacker. Dallas, TX: Deep Bellum, 2019. 104 p.

COLLECTED WORKS

From three worlds: New writing from Ukraine / ed. by Ed Hogan, Askold Melnyczuk and Michael Naydan. Moscow: Glas ; Boston: Zephyr Press, 1996. 282 p.

BILINGUAL WORKS

Bilotserkivets, Natalka. Eccentric days of hope and sorrow: Selected poems / trans. by Ali Kinsella and Dzvinia Orlowsky. Sandpoint, ID: Lost Horse Press, 2021. 201 p.
From three worlds: New Ukrainian writing / ed. by Ed Hogan, Askold Melnyczuk and Michael Naydan. Moscow: Glas ; Boston: Zephyr Press, 1996. 282 p.
Izdryk, Yuri. Smokes: Poems / trans. by Roman Ivashkiv and Erin Moure. Sandpoint, ID: Lost Horse Press, 2019. 103 p.
Shuvalova, Iryna. Pray to the empty wells: Poems / trans. by Olena Jennings. Sandpoint, ID: Lost Horse Press, 2019. 159 p.
Starovoyt, Iryna. A field of foundlings: Selected poems / trans. by Grace Mahoney. Sandpoint, ID: Lost Horse Press, 2017. 75 p.

MULTIPLE GENRES

From three worlds: New Ukrainian writing / ed. by Ed Hogan, Askold Melnyczuk and Michael Naydan. Moscow: Glas ; Boston: Zephyr Press, 1996. 282 p.

Other Useful Sources (in English)

"Ukraine, Russia, and the West: A background reading list"

"Ukraine in war" (a publication in series "What think tanks are thinking")