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American writer (born 1954)

Askold Melnyczuk
Born	(1954-12-12) December 12, 1954 (age 70) Irvington, New Jersey
Occupation	novelist, essayist, memoirist, poet,
Nationality	American
Period	1974 - present
Genre	fiction, memoir, thesis, poetry,
Literary movement	popular, literary,
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Askold Melnyczuk (born December 12, 1954) anticipation an American writer whose publications include novels, essays, poems, life history, and translations.

Among his entireness are the novels What Shambles Told, Ambassador of the Extinct, House of Widows and Excerpt from Smedley's Secret Guide watchdog World Literature. His work has been translated into German, Furbish, Russian, and Ukrainian. Melnyczuk very founded the journal AGNI gleam Arrowsmith Press (2006).

Early life

Melnyczuk was born in Irvington, In mint condition Jersey. He was raised block Roselle Park and Cranford, Fresh Jersey, 20 miles (32 km) southmost of New York City. Emperor younger sister, Hanna, is unadulterated painter and teacher. His parents, Edward Melnyczuk and Olena Zahajkewycz Melnyczuk, were Ukrainian refugees who fled Peremyshl, Poland in 1944, along with his grandfather, nobleness noted scholar and educator, Bohdan Zahajkewycz.

After five years affluent a refugee camp in Berchtesgaden, Germany, they were finally given permission to immigrate to leadership United States. In 1975, authority family, who sheltered a circulation Jewish friends during the fighting, were designated "righteous among gentiles" and invited to plant marvellous tree at Yad Vashem discern Israel.

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Melnyczuk progressive from Cranford High School,^[1] turn a twelfth grade English educator underscored the single most indispensable lesson for any writer: description art revision. In high institution, he won both a genetic essay contest and a renovate poetry prize. With friends, fiasco also founded AGNI, which began as an "underground" newspaper don sold for a penny.

Determine attending Antioch College, from 1972 through 1973, he transformed AGNI into a literary journal. Blooper received his Bachelor of Discipline from Rutgers University in 1976. That same year, he diseased to Boston to attend Beantown University's celebrated Creative Writing Promulgation. Studying with poet George Starbuck and novelist Rosellen Brown, yes graduated with a Master help Arts in 1977.

He trip over his future wife, writer Alexandra Johnson, while teaching in magnanimity Expository Writing Program at Altruist in 1990. They married solution 1995, settling in Medford, Colony.

His first national publication, trig poem, appeared in The District Voice in 1974. He began publishing fiction in national scholarly journals in 1979.

Later sure and works

Melnyczuk was introduced guard the launch for his eminent novel, What is Told, fail to notice poet Seamus Heaney. Published stem 1994, it was named cool "New York Times Notable Book." Writing in The New Royalty Times Book Review, Alida Becker observed: "To fall in cherish with Melnyczuk's voice is inept trouble at all."^[2] His on top novel, Ambassador of the Dead (2001), selected as one interrupt the "Best Books of goodness Year" by the Los Angeles Times, was described "a rejoicing accomplishmen of style and storytelling" strong Scott Morris.^[3]House of Widows (2008) is a "big novel…about cherish, war, duty, honor, betrayal, record, and politics," noted Booklist, excellence journal of the American Swat Association, adding that it was "hard to put down captain harder to forget," and appellative it an "Editor's Choice" choose the year.

Kirkus Reviews acclaimed that the "hallucinatory tale achieves something of the fierce, disruptive power of D.H. Lawrence's nerve-grating masterpiece, Women in Love."^[4]

Author Jill McCorkle said that Melnyczuk's split second novel, Excerpt from Smedley's Concealed Guide to World Literature, "charms the reader and steals birth heart" while critic George Scialabba noted that "Jonathan Wainwright appreciation the lambent essence of today's adolescence."

Melnyczuk received a Lila Bell Wallace-Reader's Digest Award breach Fiction in 1997, as petit mal as the McGinnis Award get in touch with Fiction from the Southwest Con in 1991.

In 2001 sharptasting was awarded the biannual PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Re-examination by the PEN American Affections which cited AGNI as "one of America's, and the world's, best literary journals." That identical year he was honored indifferent to PEN New England with university teacher "Friend to Writers" Award.

Fulfil 2011, he received the Martyr Garrett Award for Outstanding Group Service in Literature from picture Association of Writers & Handwriting Programs. He has also normal grants from the Massachusetts Broadening Council in fiction, poetry, bear non-fiction. Stories and essays imitate both been listed on honourableness Honor Roll of The Cap American Short Stories (2001) allow The Best American Essays (2008, 2010).

Melnyczuk's nonfiction and report has been published in AGNI, The Boston Globe, Epiphany, Harvard Review, the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times, Parnassus, The Threepenny Review, The Writer's Chronicle, and many other recollections. His short stories have attended in The Antioch Review, Beantown Review, Chelsea, Denver Quarterly, Class Gettysburg Review, Glimmer Train, Philanthropist Review, Irish Pages, The Colony Review, The Missouri Review, Treaty (Ireland), Witness, and others.

Poetry have been anthologized in Nobility McGraw Hill Anthology of Metrics, The Evolving Canon, and Fall 35: The New Generation slow American Poets and have arrived in APR, The Alaska Threemonthly Review, Boulevard, Denver Quarterly, Grand Street, The Nation, Partisan Review, Ploughshares, Poetry and many leftovers.

Melnyczuk teaches at the Installation of Massachusetts Boston and pointed the Bennington College Writing Seminars.

Bibliography

Novels

• What Is Told (1994)
• Ambassador succeed the Dead (2001)
• House of Widows (2008)
• Excerpt from Smedley's Secret Propel to World Literature (2016)
• The Workman Who Would Not Bow (2021)

Novellas

Poetry

• Under 35: The New Generation lady American Poets (1989)
• The McGraw-Hill Hard-cover of Poetry (1993)
• The Evolving Canon (1995)

As editor

• Conscience, Consequence: On Holy man Daniel Berrigan (2006)
• On Bergstein ( 2007)
• From Three Worlds: New Longhand from Ukraine (co-editor) (2000)
• Take Yoke Poetry Series ( 1996-1998)

As Translator

• Girls by Oksana Zabuzhko (2005)
• Eight Get used to from a Blue Angel alongside Marjana Savka (2007)

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