Background
Solomiia Pavlychko was born December 15, 1958 in Lviv. Her father was the well-known Ukrainian poet, Dmytro Pavlychko.
Solomiia Pavlychko was born December 15, 1958 in Lviv. Her father was the well-known Ukrainian poet, Dmytro Pavlychko.
She graduated in English and French from the Romance-Germanic Faculty of Kiev University, earning a Doctor of Philosophy in English literature in 1984. She was a Doctor of Philosophy, a professor at the University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and a member of the Writer"s Union of Ukraine.
From 1985 she worked at the National Academy of Science of Ukraine. She was also a visiting professor at the University of Alberta, and at Harvard University, where she was a Fulbright fellowship Since 1992 she was the head of the editorial board of the publishing house Osnovy in Kiev.
Her memoir of the first years of Ukrainian independence in 1990-1991, Letters from Kiev, was published in English in 1992.
She was also a prolific translator: among her Ukrainian translations are William Golding"s Lord of the Flies and Doctorate. H. Lawrence"s Lady Chatterley"s Lover. Mistress Pavlychko also contributed to the work of the World Bank/United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Task Force on Higher Education in Developing Countries, whose report was issued in February
2000. She left unfinished a biography of the Ukrainian poet and orientalist Ahatanhel Krymskyi.
She died on December 31, 1999.
Pavlychko wrote book-length studies of American romanticism, Byron, the modern English novel and modernism in Ukrainian literature.