Igor Kaczurowskyj

Igor Kaczurowskyj (1918–2013), an eminent Ukrainian poet-neoclassicist, novelist and short story writer, translator, literary scholar and literary critic, university lecturer, journalist. He spent most of his life in exile working as a port labourer, lecturing on Ancient Ukrainian literature at the Catholic University and on Russian literature at the University of El Salvador, both in Buenos Aires, on history and theory of literature at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich; also he wrote and broadcast literature reviews at the Ukrainian Desk of the broadcasting service Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. He was awarded many literary prizes including Shevchenko National Prize (2006). The Astrolabe Publishing produced his translation of Song of Roland and the collection of his selected poems named Poetry.