Wira Wowk. Spohady

In addition to Vira Vovk’s memoirs, this book also includes conversations, portraits, articles, and the author’s lengthy bibliography.

Vira Vovk (Selianska) was born in Boryslav in 1926. She studied Germanics, musicology, and comparative literature in Tübingen, Rio de Janeiro (where she completed a PhD), New York, and Munich. She was a professor of literature at Rio de Janeiro State University. Vovk has won the Ivan Franko Literary Award in Chicago (1957, 1982, 1985, 1989) and in Kyiv (1990) as well as the Blahovist Prize in 2000.