Interview with Solomiya Pavlychko

1998, National Television Company of Ukraine. An episode of the programme ‘In the Beginning Was the Word...’. Presenter: Teodozia Zarivna.

A video interview with Solomiya Pavlychko, a writer, literary scholar, Doctor of Philology and daughter of the poet Dmytro Pavlychko. The studio, the writer’s books, a conversation about her creative journey, her work abroad, translations of her works and her academic publications. Commentary by: critic Lyudmyla Taran; Doctor of Philology and critic Volodymyr Morenets.

Background: Solomiya Pavlychko was a Ukrainian literary scholar, cultural studies expert and translator, and a researcher of modernism and feminist criticism. She was the founder of the Osnovy publishing house. She died in 1999 as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning in her own flat.