TETYANA VASYLIVNA HRITSAN-CHONKA

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Tetyana Vasylivna Hrytsan-Chonka is a Ukrainian writer.

TETIANA HRITSAN-CHONKA

 

Tetiana Vasylivna Hritsan-Chonka is a Ukrainian writer, born on April 29, 1964, in the village of Vilkhivtsi. She currently resides in the Zakarpattia region. She is a teacher by profession and works at the Krasnyanske Lyceum.

 

She is a member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine, the International Academy of Literature, Art, and Communication "Gloria" (Germany), and the All-Ukrainian Public Organization "Kobzar".

 

She is the author of 14 poetry collections and the novel-essay "Living Doors, or I am the Blind Apple of the Century. I am a Woman...". She is also a co-author of 77 anthologies and literary almanacs, both Ukrainian and international publications, including "Article" - Tel Aviv, "Soul" (Japanese poetry collection), "BRZEGI OGNIA I WODY" (Polish almanac), journal "TextOver", international poetry collection "Lili Marleen" (Greek), Chinese poetry collection "Poetry of the World", English anthology against war "Verses for the People of Ukraine", and co-author of a textbook for Ukrainian students in grades 5-7 "Modern Literature of the Homeland". She is also the author of the Azerbaijani-Ukrainian poetry collection "Golden Apple" and others.

 

Her works have been translated into Polish, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Turkish, Greek, English, Azerbaijani, and other languages. She is the only participant from Ukraine in the anthology "Anatolian Wind IV - International Anthology" (640 pages, 55 poets and writers from 23 countries, in 13 different languages, published in Turkey). She is also the only participant in the project of the International magazine "Prodigy" (USA) for October 2023 in the series "Awakening", with one poem created as a collective message from 161 poets from around the world. She is a record holder and participant in the international anthology "HYPERPOEM" among 2000 participants, which entered the Guinness Book of Records, and a co-author of World Literature in the International newspaper "Global Nation" (Bangladesh).

 

Her works are published in international publications, and she participates in various international platforms such as "Poets of the World for Peace in Ukraine" in Italy, Germany, UK, China, India, Japan, Canada, USA, Bangladesh, Germany, Vietnam, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, etc.

 

She is the laureate of international and All-Ukrainian awards and the winner of many competitions, including the laureate of the International Literary and Artistic Prize named after Panteleimon Kulish (2020) for the book "Living Doors, or I am the Blind Apple of the Century. I am a Woman", the laureate of the international Franz Kafka Prize (Frankfurt-Vienna-Prague), the laureate of the international "Golden Feather" prize in Azerbaijan, awarded a Diploma from the Community of Literature and Art "Gloria" and included in the Rating-2022 "Save and Preserve". She is also the laureate of the honorary International Literary and Artistic Prize named after Heinrich Böll (2022), the laureate of the International Literary and Artistic Competition named after Ernest Hemingway in Germany for 2022, the laureate of the international "Cultural Diplomacy" prize, awarded the World Order "Golden Star of Cultural Diplomacy" (2023), the laureate of the International Literary Prize named after Robert Burns (Scotland-USA, Los Angeles) for 2023, the laureate of the All-Ukrainian Vasyl Yuhymovych Prize (2023), and has been awarded the title of "International Ambassador of Peace" by the world-renowned newspaper The Daily Global Nation Independent, Dhaka, Bangladesh, the laureate of the International Literary Peace Prize (Germany-USA, 2023), the "Golden Bridge" award from the International Literature Fund in Kyrgyzstan, and the laureate of the international Duke de Richelieu Prize in the category "Book of the Year" for the book "Ini Chasy" (Germany-Ukraine, 2023), the Prize from the Rahim Karimov Foundation (2023), the President of the International Literature Fund, the laureate of the International Literary Prize named after Theodore Dreiser (Art Marathon, Portugal, 2023), Global Writers Academ (India, 2024), and others.

On August 24, 2024, the President of the Association of Cultural and Art Workers, D. Dolmachuk, signed certificate No. 108, which certifies the awarding of the title “Honored Cultural Worker of Ukraine” to our compatriot, member of the Union of Writers of Ukraine, writer Tetyana Hrytsan-Chonka, with the presentation of a badge.

A small sacred country

With open chests,

Walking around…

Oh people, people,

Where, when, why?

I'm lying down… December on tiptoes,

Snow turns into little snowballs…

People in a circle, amongst them Christ and smoke.

Yesterday's roosters lie on the ashes of dreams,

Look – it's our fleeting genes,

And we, and the shadow… running through the world.

Peaceful people in peace,

A peaceful cat on a peaceful dance floor,

And there, far away, Grishny lies propped up on paper…

There the sun doesn't scorch, there the moon doesn't stay silent.

There Grodni, the envoy of the dead, is valued.

And people spin in the rye –

Yesterday's watchful moments

 

Alle sind stumm

Geh,

Oder beraube mich nicht

Des Lebens…

Für einfache Noten

Des glücklichen Seins…

Er wurde zum Regen,

Denn am Himmel verrotten sie nicht…

Er weinte am Fenster,

Riss sich an Freunden entlang

Mit dem Licht bei mir.

An seiner Stelle

Enthüllten sich Ängste:

Für die gegenwärtigen Stunden,

Für kommende Familien,

Für gute Absichten,

Für Frühlingsmomente,

Für stummen Schmerz…

Es tut mir nicht leid, jenes Heulen,

Das sich jede Nacht in meinen

Träumen zeigt, im Blickfeld erlischt.

Mir ist dieser berührende Gestaltungsstil des Schicksals

Von ihm zuwider aus dem Inneren gekrochen…

Und er wusste es nicht, er brüllte und wartete,

Und weinte und betete…

Er hat sich geirrt…

Nicht ich habe ihn hierher gebracht,

Nicht ich habe seine Ruder zerbrochen,

Nicht ich habe in der Ruhe gestraft…

Nicht ich –

Aber es stellte sich heraus – alle Schuld

Trägt er…

Er ist ermattet…

In the light, he emerged like a tsar

He began calling gently for Paradise.

I have brought upon myself a new sorrow.

Why doesn't the prayer reach the Tablets?

I have created new spaces,

With new footsteps in Hostomel…

Where screams distorted the veil,

Where white turned black on the window…

Everyone is silent…

To me, it's nothing. What about you?

To me, to no one, for no reason,

From nowhere – just the Far.

Only took up smashing

The light…

Poppy flowers – the wind of mountain blossoms.

Talk to me. Speak,

Because you can only speak…

But he wanted, still,

To live.

In that distant world,

Where we still exist…